Alias Grace "Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?"  —The Publisher. Home Biography Novels Short Fiction Poetry Site Awards Excerpts from Alias Grace Excerpt, Ch. 1: "Out of the gravel there are peonies growing" - Amazon.com Excerpt: "About this time I began to notice a change in Mary" - Random House Excerpt: "I am sitting on the purple velvet settee." - ReadingGroupGuides.com Plot Synopses Plot Synopsis - O.W. Toad Plot Summary - Gillian Bouras Historical Background Voluntary Confession of Grace Marks, 1843 - Ontario History Quest Historical Letter on which Alias Grace is based - O.W. Toad Grace Marks - Answers to Liberation Questionnaire, 1872 - O.W. Toad Margaret Atwood Regarding Alias Grace Margaret Atwood's Letter to the Reader "Blood & Laundry" Interview by Laura Miller, Salon (Jan 1997) Interview by David Wiley, Minnesota Daily (Mar 1997) Interview by Deborah Rozen for Random House (1997) Book Reviews The New York Times, 1996 Time Magazine, 1996 Entertainment Weekly, 1996 Quill and Quire, 1996 Tucson Weekly, 1997 Dancing Badger Essays on Alias Grace Crimson Silks and New Potatoes: The Heteroglossic Power of the Object in Alias Grace - Cristie March Split Subjects in Atwood's The Robber Bride and Alias Grace - Katarína Labudová Natural Born Quilter - David Wiley Subverting from Within: Atwood's Alias Grace - Bernice M. Murphy Study Guides and Miscellaneous Resources Reader's Guide to Alias Grace - Books@Random Other Stage Production of Alias Grace to Margaret Atwood's Novels to Margaret Atwood Luminarium Copyright ©1996-2007 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Book cover images remain under the copyright of their respective copyright owners. This page created on December 18, 2006 by Anniina Jokinen. Last updated January 3, 2007. About this Website | Luminarium Privacy Statement. Margaret Atwood has gone on to become not just a major Canadian Writer, and a woman writer (whom some would call a Feminist Writer), but an award-winning author of English literature. Her works include novels, short stories, poetry, etc.