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Sylvia Plath's new short story was never 'lost' – so why is the media saying it was 'just discovered'?

  • Written by Bethany Anderson, University Archivist, University of Virginia
Archivists put an immense amount of work into organizing, digitizing and maintaining repositories.AP Photo/Matt Dunham

The recent publication of Sylvia Plath’s short story “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” has been met with much fanfare, with the media eager to highlight that the story had been “lost,” only to have...

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