March 1988 Issue Victoria Glendinning Nursery School of Writers British Writers of the Thirties By Valentine Cunningham LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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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.
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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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