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![]() ![]() (1971–73) and as an editor and political cartoonist for This Magazine. In the 1970s, Atwood was involved with nationalist cultural concerns as an editor for House of Anansi Press ![]() ![]() Now Concordia University), and York University (1971–72). She held positions at the University of British Columbia (1964–65), Sir George Williams University (1967–68 Teaching CareerĪtwood also had a distinguished teaching career. In the latter, words become a refuge for weak women against male force. Its themes of women's alienation echo those in her poetry, which continued with Procedures for Underground (1970), The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), and Power Politics (1971). In 1969, Atwood published her first novel, The Edible Woman. The Circle Game (1966), was awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. Atwood's reputation as a poet was established when her second The influence of professors Jay MacPherson and Northrop Frye directed her early poetry toward myth and archetype in her first book, Double Persephone (1961). She obtained an MA at Radcliffe College, Harvard in 1962. Margaret Atwood studied English, with minors in philosophy and French, at the University of Toronto (1957–61). ![]()
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