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Guest Post: 'I must make my own Cambridge'

The following is a guest blog post by Natalie Hurt, University of Sheffield, on visiting the University of Cambridge and working in with the Anne Stevenson archive. Thank you, Natalie! ~pks For pretty much the entire time I have been researching Sylvia Plath, the worldwide pandemic has been looming over my head. That has meant no travel and no library visits for me and has limited my experience of archives to purely online encounters – which is still exciting but isn’t the same! So, when restrictions started to lift in the UK, and my dissertation supervisor suggested I go to Cambridge to look at the Anne Stevenson papers in their university archives, I knew I had to go. I’m currently writing my MA dissertation on the Sylvia Plath estate and their efforts to control Plath’s biography, so the Anne Stevenson papers seemed essential to my argument. Cambridge is also one of the many stops that any Plath devotee will make at one point or another, which made going there all the more exciting....