From the May 2024 Issue Eternity Was in Their Lips The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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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.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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