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Comment on Hemingway’s lost suitcase by The Ephemeral Future of Authors’ Ephemera | BOOK RIOT

The Ephemeral Future of Authors’ Ephemera | BOOK RIOT — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:52 +0000

[...] the losses are better in analog. Hemingway’s stolen manuscripts are much more romantic than a crashed hard [...]

Comment on The Seven Pillars of Reading Station by Third Act, or Day 15 NaNoWriMo | Chris Kouju

Third Act, or Day 15 NaNoWriMo | Chris Kouju — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:30:53 +0000

[...] hadn’t kept the habit of saving a copy of the novel in Google Documents. Heck, Hemingway and T. E. Lawrence lost entire manuscripts. That would really suck. It’s amazing they found the strength to [...]

Comment on Hemingway’s lost suitcase by Third Act, or Day 15 NaNoWriMo | Chris Kouju

Third Act, or Day 15 NaNoWriMo | Chris Kouju — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:30:50 +0000

[...] if I hadn’t kept the habit of saving a copy of the novel in Google Documents. Heck, Hemingway and T. E. Lawrence lost entire manuscripts. That would really suck. It’s amazing they found [...]

Comment on Hemingway’s lost suitcase by Quora

Quora — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:42:37 +0000

What are the most famous examples of creative work being accidentally lost or destroyed?…

Perhaps smaller in physical scale than the first two answers, but, I would imagine, no smaller emotionally for the creator would be the loss of Ernest Hemingway’s suitcase in 1922 filled with first and only drafts of numerous works. Hemingway writes a…

Comment on Hemingway’s lost suitcase by Losing Things Sucks: 3 Historically Significant Items – Lost | ZOMM Blog

Losing Things Sucks: 3 Historically Significant Items – Lost | ZOMM Blog — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:24:20 +0000

[...] wife, Hadley, lost a suitcase containing all but two of his fiction manuscripts. At the time of the loss in December 1922, none [...]

Comment on The Seven Pillars of Reading Station by Lost manuscripts | UsGraphic

Lost manuscripts | UsGraphic — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:08:49 +0000

[...] The Seven Pillars of Reading Station | Lost ManuscriptsWhat happened to the lost manuscript? Lawrence telephoned Reading Station from Oxford an hour after the discovery of the loss, but there was no sign of his briefcase. Despite articles, offers of a reward, and pleas in the press, no one came forward and … This entry was posted in Stolen manuscripts and tagged Lawrence. [...]

Comment on The French Revolution by horatia

horatia — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:09:30 +0000

It was probably a housemaid, but history has not recorded the gender for certain.

Comment on The French Revolution by utprint

utprint — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:47:14 +0000

Your post does not make it clear whether it was male or female servant.

Comment on The Ghost of Plath’s Double Exposure by Macanoly V.Q.

Macanoly V.Q. — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:21:21 +0000

I haven’t read little about Sylvia, but just what I needed. I have been into a para-psychological experience with Sylvia, that I couldn’t tell about, but to publish on http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sylvia-2006/, and subsequently there were another fascinating experiences about somo of her writing, even one of Sylvia Plath unknown is published under her name in my poetry book in Español “Escenas” “You made warmth while I speak and I don’t need my fireplace…” (Sylvia Plath), and some others about. I am glad to be quite honest and truth to her. To preserve her writing, because me, as a writer could take advantage of it. But, I am truly honest to preserve a memory that isn’t mine, a wonderful mind which does not advantage on another one, and does write in her own.

Comment on The Ghost of Plath’s Double Exposure by Wren

Wren — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:01:52 +0000

My name is Wren. I am a 46 yr. young woman who has always revered Sylvia Plath. I have read and reread all of her work. I loved the Bell Jar as I too had a similar experience as a youth in a barbaric asylum. No, I am not crazy and neither was Sylvia, despite what many think. I too am a writer who’s life has many similarities to those of Sylvia. I too, have suffered the unbearable heartache of being married to a man I loved completely only to find out after years of marriage that he was being unfaithful.
Although many people now a days have no clue who she was, I find Sylvia Plath to be one of the most important people to ever have been a writer. Her poetry is unrivaled and has inspired my style and uniqueness of the art. She was one of the first women in poetry to express her darkest emotions, fears and thoughts without shame or inhibition. I admire her bluntness and honesty. I cherish her work, my favorite poems being ” November Graveyard ” and ” Daddy”. I too had non-present father and I can relate to her pain caused by his lack of presence in her life.
I only wish she hadn’t killed herself over the pain of her husband’s infidelity , as the world needs and hungers for a writer of her caliber. I was not even born when she killed herself, but now that I am a mature woman, I would give anything to sit with her over a cup of tea or perhaps a gin and tonic as she might have preferred and put my arm around her and consoled her over the pain Ted Hughes caused her. I would have told her to not give into the pain , but rather to channel that anger and betrayal into more powerful , expressive poetry. Alas , I will not have a chance to do that as she made a permanent decision to end her suffering. I do however, wonder why the love of her children was not enough to insight endurance of this sometimes hellish life we call existence, but perhaps they reminded her of her philandering husband too much. I can only speculate and that is the saddest thing of all, to lose the chance of ever meeting her and telling her what a difference she made in my life.
I am a writer. I am a woman. Sylvia Plath made a huge difference in my life and my work. I can only hope she found the relief she was searching for in the afterlife.
May God bless her soul.
Renee Morvant (Wren)