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Giving Up is Jillian Becker’s intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet’s life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the... read more

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First Sentence

If events in a writer's life are worth recording, they should have the virtue of having happened; so I'd better set down my memories of Slyvia Plath while I still have them.

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  1. Jillian Becker (Author)

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  1. biography
  2. death
  3. memoir
  4. non fiction
  5. poetry 
 

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