Mad Girls Love Song – Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
by Andrew Wilson (Simon & Schuster) On 11th February 1963, Sylvia Plath folded a cloth, placed it in her gas oven, and laid her head inside having first sealed the door of her children's bedroom. She was 30 and good reviews and a growing reputation were seemingly not enough for the troubled writer. Early 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of her sole novel, The Bell Jar just a few weeks prior to her death. My next guest has written a new biography of the writer which includes new material about her life before Ted Hughes of which ...
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