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You’re probably going to hear the claim that “People of Hope” inspired Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. But the timeline for this claim does not make sense. https://bit.ly/3hRLGp7
Atwood showed The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead her notes, including a newspaper clipping about "a Catholic congregation in New Jersey being taken over by a fundamentalist sect in which wives were called “handmaidens”—a word that Atwood had underlined.” https://bit.ly/3hRLGp7
Barring the existence of time travel, there is no way a newspaper article from the end of October 1985 can influence the creation of a book published in August 1985. https://bit.ly/3hRLGp7
