‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’

@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.

Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery

Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson

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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.

@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.

Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute

Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)

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