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Gail Crowther

Biography

Gail Crowther

Gail Crowther is a freelance writer, researcher and academic. She is the author of THREE-MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE RITZ and THE HAUNTED READER AND SYLVIA PLATH, and the coauthor of SYLVIA PLATH IN DEVON: A Year’s Turning and THESE GHOSTLY ARCHIVES: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England with her dog, George, and London. As a feminist vegan she engages with politics concerning gender, power and animal rights.

Gail Crowther

Books by Gail Crowther

by Gail Crowther - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect in equal terms. In the years that followed, these two women would not only become iconic figures in literature, but also lead curiously parallel lives haunted by mental illness, suicide attempts, self-doubt and difficult personal relationships. With weekly martini meetings at the Ritz to discuss everything from sex to suicide, theirs was a relationship as complex and subversive as their poetry.