Sarah Ditum

Who is Sylvia – what is she?

Far from being suicidal, her early letters are witty, generous, ambitious, wildly clever and, above all, alive

issue 07 October 2017

  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940–1956

    edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil

    Faber

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