Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why

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by Sady Doyle

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I know this is a bit late but... Re: Sylvia Plath section....I don't understand why everyone is glossing over the fact that she absolves Ted Hughes... She concluded that he redacted so much from her journals because he was scared everyone would discover how bad his hygiene was???? I cant get past this...
Jude Hey! This is Sady. This actually bothers me, too. You can chalk it up to the fact that life moves on, but books stay put: When I was drafting the book…moreHey! This is Sady. This actually bothers me, too. You can chalk it up to the fact that life moves on, but books stay put: When I was drafting the book, the near-universal consensus was that the unredacted journals showed no evidence of abuse, therefore, there probably wasn't any. However, we were missing her journals from the end of the marriage. In the past year, we've gotten the letters to her therapist, which date from the missing months, affirming that he did physically abuse her. I don't doubt that it happened -- a whole lot of lines from her work make more sense now; like her father's Nazi sympathies, it was something everyone thought was a metaphor until we got proof that it was just a statement of fact -- and I wrote about it for Medium when the revelation first emerged. But it does date the book, which was written before that key evidence emerged. (less)
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