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- Alias Grace, the new CBC and Netflix miniseries inspired by Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel of the same name, is based on a true story. But like most things "based on a true story," elements of the tale, written by Atwood and adapted for television by Sarah Polley, are fiction.
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The Mysterious Murder Case That Inspired Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’. At the center of the case was a beautiful young woman named Grace Marks. But was she really responsible for the crime?...
- The Victims and The Killers
- The Trial of Grace Marks
- The Fate of “Alias Grace”
One summer day in July 1843, a gruesome discovery was made in what is now Ontario, Canada. The bodies of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery were found in his home. The pair (who also happened to be lovers) had been brutally murdered, with Kinnear shot and Montgomery struck on the head and then strangled. It didn’t take long for the...
Accounts of the trial tend to either cast Grace Marks as the cunning instigator of a brutal crime who overwhelmed McDermott with her wicked wiles or as an unwitting and somewhat dimwitted accomplice who had instead been strong-armed into the murder by the more powerful McDermott. And the defendants themselves seemed only too eager to help paint the...
Despite their finger-pointing, both Grace Marks and James McDermott did confess to complicity in the murders. McDermott was shown no mercy and hanged, but, perhaps because of her youth or her gender, the court took pity on Marks and sentenced her to life imprisonment rather than death. She wound up serving a total of 29 years in prison before being...
Alias Grace, the new CBC and Netflix miniseries inspired by Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel of the same name, is based on a true story. But like most things "based on a true story,"...
- IT'S ONE OF THREE ATWOOD ADAPTATIONS HITTING THE SMALL SCREEN THIS YEAR. Atwood's classic 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale of course already came out on Hulu and garnered several Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series.
- IT’S BASED ON A TRUE STORY. Alias Grace tells the story of a young Irish servant named Grace Marks, who kills her employer and his mistress in 1843 Canada with the help of a male servant.
- NOBODY KNOWS HOW THE STORY ENDS. Although Grace Marks really existed, nobody knows the rest of her story. Following the crime, she was sentenced to death in 1843.
- EVEN IN THE 1800S, PEOPLE WERE DRAWN TO THE STORY'S SEX AND VIOLENCE. The stereotype of the 1800s is of a buttoned-up era in which a lady showing her ankle was considered racy.
Nov 3, 2017 · Alias Grace is historical fiction, based on true events but with an Atwood twist or two to keep the story interesting. Enter: Dr. Simon Jordan, a fictional doctor and budding psychologist who...
- Caitlin Busch
Nov 3, 2017 · November 3, 2017. Sabrina Lantos/Netflix. Alias Grace is based on a true story — but the reality behind the fiction gets complicated. The series, and the original 1996 novel that inspired...
Sep 25, 2017 · Alias Grace, which was originally published in 1996, is based on the true story of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant and servant in Upper Canada who finds herself accused of murdering her...
