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… a bell jar and left room for a dozen bells: I knew she had committed suicide at age 30 by sticking her head in an oven, … from another poet, Ted Hughes, and that feminist intellectuals and scholars often took up Plath and her work as a … of Plath’s. Many of those poets, Alvarez argues, also died young and dramatically, but few incorporated death of …

… Me (Us ne m’auronl pas!). By Jean Helion. E. P. Dutton, and Company. $3.00. These three books, different in theme, in … led them to take part in other escapes of British soldiers, that is, their passage from one zone (occupied) to … capable of the best. It meets with and confirms on many points the two other works but it soars above them by its …

… great mural of mounted General Robert E. Lee and his generals, whose names I could recite. Grandmother Harriet had … with Uncle John to Sea Island for a secret ceremony. She died of a stroke 11 months later. She’d been washing her … and further upset Aunt Rose. “You never get it out,” she complained. “It’s in the rugs, the furniture, the walls.” …

… contributing editor Delphine Schrank is part of an online companion to our Fall 2012 issue on The Female Conscience. … back home, nor as one from these parts—for their sake, but also, let’s be honest, for my own. However gender-neutral I … my sense of self, however invisible my femaleness, it will come back to bite. I don’t often think about being female …

… the reality is that every appointment is political. Merit competes with other political considerations, such as … But after FDR filled eight seats with Democrats and died in the spring of 1945, President Harry Truman faced … during the tenure of the appointees,” Justice Rehnquist points out. “Even though they agree as to the proper …