Status Updates From Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia...

'Mademoiselle put their guest editors to work immediately with the celebrity interview... Mademoiselle matched [Sylvia] up with the Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.'

'[Sylvia] broke her leg in a skiing accident.'

'The girl about town was an appealing alternative to the wife and mother in training. Not only did these fashion features encourage young women to pursue careers, they were a subtle push towards self-discovery.'

'Barbizon girls steamed with ambition and anxiety, eager to join the ranks of the hotel's most famous resident, Grace Kelly.'

'The stark facts of Sylvia Plath's suicide have led to decades of reductionist writing about her'
~ Introduction

'You are twenty... The strange tableau in the closet behind the bathroom: the feast, the beast, the jelly bean.'
~ Epigraph, from Plath's journals, 14 November, 1952