MARGARET ATWOOD

IN 1970 MARGARET Atwood, known only in small, mostly Canadian circles for her poetry, published a book entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a persona poem sequence written from the point of view of a legendary 19th-century Canadian pioneer who had encountered the notorious murderess Grace Marks on a visit to a lunatic asylum. Grace had been alternately institutionalized and imprisoned for the brutal murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his lover/housekeeper Nancy Montgomery, …

…the publisher wouldn't go for it. After Rolf Sinclair, Director of Physics Programs at the National Science Foundation read it, he called it "the classic book on its subject," and invited me to speak at a seminar he was organizing at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As you've read, it's long been out of print --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.