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Archives and Hives

For seven years after her 1963 burial, Sylvia Plath lay in an unmarked grave near St Thomas the Apostle Church in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire. The gravestone, when it came, bore her birth and married names, Sylvia Plath Hughes, the years of her birth and death, and a line from Wu Cheng-en’s sixteenth-century novel Monkey King:Journey to the West: ‘Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus can be planted.’
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The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg
Faber, $75 hb, 848 pp
Sylvia Plath: A very short introduction
by Heather Clark
Oxford University Press, £9.99 pb, 144 pp
Loving Sylvia Plath: A reclamation
by Emily Van Duyne
W.W. Norton, US$27.99 hb, 320 pp
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