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The Handmaid’s Tale Halloween Special: Mary Webster Survives the Hanging | Banned Books Podcast
It’s a Halloween special, so there’s no chapter this time. Jennifer reads Margaret Atwood’s poem “Half-Hanged Mary,” about the real woman The Handmaid’s Tale is dedicated to. Mary Webster was accused of witchcraft in the 1680s, hanged by a mob, and somehow lived to tell it.
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