Agnes has a loving relationship with Tabitha, who later dies of ill health. In secret, Aunt Lydia despises Gilead and becomes a mole supplying critical information to the Mayday resistance organization.įifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, a girl named Agnes Jemima is growing up in Boston as the adopted daughter of Commander Kyle and his wife Tabitha. The Aunts use Ardua Hall as their headquarters and enjoy certain privileges that include reading "forbidden" texts, such as Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua. After enduring weeks of squalid conditions and solitary confinement, she and a small group of other women are handpicked by Commander Judd and Vidala, a pre-existing supporter of Gilead, to become Aunts-an elite group of women tasked with creating and overseeing the laws and uniforms governing Gilead's women. Lydia, a divorced judge, is imprisoned with other women in a stadium during the establishment of Gilead. The novel alternates between the perspectives of three women, presented as portions of a manuscript written by one (the Ardua Hall Holograph) and testimonies by the other two.
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