If you are interested in the ways in which Attwoods The Handmaids Tale has been interpreted since its publication, you might enjoy looking at Mazo de la Roche's highly praised first novel Jalne (1927). Nicola Onyett considers how the changing critical response to del la Roche's popular saga over time reveals much about the gulf between high art and popular culture, and the implications about being labelled a 'womans writer'.