Handmaid

Note 17: See, for example, the recipes in Handmaid to the Arts 2d ed.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The principal view in [Handmaid to the Arts] is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successsfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The professor said she liked my short SF tale better than "Handmaid" (a book she had chose to have the class read).

Here are the Last Lines, Now Name the Books 2008

I greatly admired The Handmaid's Tale a quarter-century ago, but inexplicably didn't try another of her books until last year.

Dave Astor: The Cupid-Like Pleasure of Canon Love Dave Astor 2012

One woman who might have the answer is Margaret Atwood, whose "The Handmaid's Tale" 1985 was an early example of such slipstreaming, set in a repulsive patriarchal theocracy.

The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

James pulled from behind his back a dog-eared mass market copy of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel and social critique with a strong feminist subtext.

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011

Seeing my ragged copy of The Handmaid's Tale was like a door opening in my memory; on the other side stood my 22-year-old self.

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011

I greatly admired The Handmaid's Tale a quarter-century ago, but inexplicably didn't try another of her books until last year.

Dave Astor: The Cupid-Like Pleasure of Canon Love Dave Astor 2012

Seeing my ragged copy of The Handmaid's Tale was like a door opening in my memory; on the other side stood my 22-year-old self.

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011

James pulled from behind his back a dog-eared mass market copy of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel and social critique with a strong feminist subtext.

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011