Sally Bayley

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Sally Bayley is a British literary scholar.

Life

Sally Bayley grew up in a large family on the Sussex coast . Bayley studied English, received his doctorate and works as a tutor and lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford . She did research on the author Sylvia Plath . In addition to her 2007 study of the relationship between Plath's artistic work and her poetics, in the same year she wrote a theater performance I Wish I Had A Sylvia Plath about Plath's life, which was seen as the best solo performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in 2010 as One- woman show in New York has been performed several times. In 2011 she published the book Representing Sylvia Plath with Tracy Brain . Bayley advised Suzie Hanna on the short film Letter to the World about Emily Dickinson . In 2018, her autobiographical novel Girl With Dove was published about the child's imagination.

Works

  • Sylvia Plath and the Costume of Femininity , in: Kathleen Connors (Ed.): Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 183-204
  • Home on the Horizon, America's Search for Space: From Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan . Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010
  • with Tracy Brain: Representing Sylvia Plath . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
  • The private life of the diary: from Pepys to tweets . London: Unbound, 2016
  • Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books . Glasgow: William Collins, 2018

literature

  • Rebecca Abrams : A testament to innocence . Review, in Financial Times, June 2, 2018, pp. L & A9

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