Tag: Margaret Atwood’s Book Of Lives


  • Anna’s Pet, a children’s book, is by Margaret Atwood and her maternal aunt, Joyce Barkhouse. The illustrator is Ann Blades. Atwood was around 41 years old when Anna’s Pet was published in 1980. Joyce Barkhouse is Margaret’s mother’s youngest sister. Her maiden name is Joyce Killam. She uses her pen name, Joyce Barkhouse, to publish…

  • In Margaret Atwood’s Book Of Lives A Memoir Of Sorts, she wrote about her sewing projects. Atwood was creative as a teen, sewing her own clothes. She once sewed a short, yellow woolly jacket with patch pockets and handmade buttons. (Atwood, p. 91) You can make your own color matching buttons to accessorize with your…