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FROM THE FAN ARCHIVE

Posted on 28/04/2022

Sylvia Plath is buried in Hepstonstall, West Yorkshire. Her gravestone named her Sylvia Plath Hughes. She and her husband, Ted Hughes, had separated seven months before her suicide, and many feminists saw this naming as a posthumous patriarchal claim, believing that she should have been buried under her own published name. So a tradition grew of removing the lead letters “Hughes” each time they were replaced. There is a set of these letters in FAN.

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