Remembering Sylvia Plath

On a bitter cold February day in London, Silvia Plath, aspiring author, left milk and bread for her two toddlers sleeping upstairs. Then she turned on the gas. She was thirty. 

Ms Plath is celebrated for her 1963 novel,The Bell Jar, a fictionalized account of her own life that reads both as feminist literature and a depression memoir. She is also lauded as the author of her dark and edgy Ariel poems.

Last year, in...

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