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Sylvia Plath Fans Call For A Fitting Memorial To The Poet

Posted at 6:31AM Monday 06 Sep 2010

A small stone in a cemetery in the Yorkshire village of Heptonstall marks the unassuming grave of Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist whose fame has grown each year since her suicide in 1963. And growing every year, too, are the numbers of foreign visitors who make a pilgrimage to the grave.

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