The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
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The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.

— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
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