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Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone De Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Sartre?
The story of each of these relationships between female writers and their male literary partners is far from straightforward, but each relationship provokes the same question: would these women have become the writers they did without the experience of their own particular literary relationship? Drawn from writers’ diaries, letters, and journals, Between the Sheets explores nine famous literary liaisons of the 20th century.
Lesley McDowell is an author and critic living in Glasgow. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Herald and The Scotsman. Her first novel, The Picnic, was published in 2007.
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