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Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace deals with the notorious murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Upper Canada in 1843. Two servants of the Kinnear household, Grace Marks and James McDermott, were convicted of the crime. James McDermott was hanged and Grace Marks was sentenced to life imprisonment. Image File history File links Alias Grace book cover This image is a book cover. ... Image File history File links Alias Grace book cover This image is a book cover. ... Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and a pioneer of Canadian womens writing. ... A housekeeper is a person responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of (usually residential premises. ... Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario Upper Canada is an early name for the land at the upstream end of the Saint Lawrence River in early North America – the territory south of Lake Nipissing and north of the St. ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Grace Marks was an Upper Canadian maid who was convicted in 1843 of murder in the death of her employer, Thomas Kinnear. ...

Although a work of fiction the novel is based on factual events, Atwood constructs a narrative that sees a fictional doctor, Simon Jordan, playing detective. Although ostensibly conducting research into criminal behaviour, he slowly becomes personally involved in the story of Grace Marks and seeks to reconcile the mild mannered woman he sees with the murder of which she has been convicted. Narrative is a term which has several and changing meanings. ...

Alias Grace won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. The Giller Prize is an annual award that goes to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Some literary critics noted eerie parallels between Grace Marks and a more contemporary Canadian criminal figure, Karla Homolka. In both trials, significant controversy was raised by the question of whether they had actively participated in the murders, or were simply unwitting accessories. Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison for her role in abetting her husband, serial killer, sex offender, kidnapper, and rapist Paul Bernardo. ...

See also Southern Ontario Gothic. Southern Ontario Gothic is a sub-genre of the Gothic novel genre and a feature of Canadian literature that comes from Southern Ontario. ...