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Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...
On February 11, 1963, following a long struggle with depression, Sylvia Plath died by suicide in her London home at the age of just 30 after sticking her head in the oven. Now considered one of the ...
American poet and author Sylvia Plath once lived next door to this elegant London townhouse, now on sale for £9.5 million (US$12.88 million). The six-bedroom period residence is in Primrose Hill ...
The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...
James Elroy Flecker celebrates poetry’s human-to-human connection in ‘To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence’. The only aspect of ...
In "Daddy," the speaker's inability to speak is not merely personal trauma but a symbol of women's historical silencing.
Patricia Lockwood new novel reflects on the Covid-19 pandemic and the effect it had on her writing. "Someone from my lovely ...
Clark used the wartime record she discovered in her grandfather’s scrapbook, which was compiled by two of his sisters, to ...
As part of our Wknd special, we talk to modern historian Fay Bound Alberti, author of A Biography of Loneliness. So what does it sound like? Read on.
Dyslexic and autistic, he has fallen behind dramatically at school, but had no support from our council. Like many other ...
Others shared similar sentiments, with one saying, "Not Sylvia Plath being misquoted on Love Island," and another commenting, "FIG TREE THEORY u cannot be serious Sylvia Plath you didn't die for ...
This Father's Day, unlike millions of people around the world, Olivia Petter won't be spending it with her dad. She explores ...