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Room To Live: Dave Haslam On Sylvia Plath & Ian Curtis

They took their own lives, and each have had posthumous fame and now inhabit a significant place in our culture. But Dave Haslam suggests the manner of their deaths distorted our perception of Sylvia Plath and Ian Curtis
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A Great Many Plathitudes: The Doom Myth Of Sylvia Plath

Fifty years after her life abruptly ended, and as fresh furore erupts over a newly-designed cover of her seminal novel The Bell Jar, Melissa Bradshaw responds to the pervading myth of Sylvia Plath as the poet who was doomed to end her life

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