Margaret Atwood
b. 1939 · Canada · Literature
The Handmaid's Tale became the global shorthand for reproductive coercion.
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- Mary Shelley
1797 – 1851 · Literature
Frankenstein founds the speculative moral fiction Atwood calls the same tradition.
- Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941 · Literature
A Room of One's Own frames Atwood's account of women's authorship.
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