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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning is part memoir, part biography focusing on the fifteen months that Sylvia Plath lived in North Tawton, Devon from September 1961 to December 1962. This was an extraordinary time for Plath as she finished the proofs on her first novel "The Bell Jar" and in the autumn of 1962 produced most of her dazzling "Ariel" poems. Elizabeth Sigmund recalls the year of her friendship with Plath from their first meeting drinking tea to attending music concerts together. Gail Crowther considers the impact Plath's domestic life had on her creative work during this period drawing for the first time on unpublished letters , documents and previously unseen resources from a wide range of archives in the UK, US and Canada. What emerges is a unique and industrious picture of Plath as she settled into town life forging new friendships, giving birth to her second child, decorating her new home and producing some of the most memorable and powerful poetry of the 20th century.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: Sylvia Plath in Devon
• Subtitle: A Year's Turning
• Author: Elizabeth Sigmund, Gail Crowther
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781781554371
• ISBN: 1781554374
• ID: 06798437
• Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 167 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. February 2015

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