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Book of the Week Mad Girl's Love Song Mad Girl's Love Song

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath

  • Plath on the beach
  • Otto Plath, Sylvia Plath's father.
  • Sylvia Plath as a baby with her mother Aurelia and her grandmother.
  • Sylvia with her younger brother Warren in Winthrop, August 1940.
  • Sylvia, almost seventeen, with her brother Warren and mother in September 1949.
  • Sylvia with boyfriend Myron Lotz, the inspiration for her poem 'Mad Girl's Love Song'.
  • Plath with Gordon Lameyer.
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Sylvia with her husband Ted Hughes, whom she married in June 1956, four months after they had first met.

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  • Book of the Week—Mad Girl's Love Song

    Andrew Wilson's book on the early life of writer Sylvia Plath, abridged by Miranda Davies

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