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"[...] "You make the world seem a hard place to live in," protested Sylvia. "I'm simply telling you the elementary facts of business. You can forbid the employer to pay less than a standard wage, but you can't compel him to employ people who aren't able to earn that wage. The business-man doesn't employ for fun, he does it for the profit there is in it." "If that is true," said Sylvia, quickly, "then the way of employing people is cruel." "But what other way could you have?" She considered. "They could be employed so that no one would make a profit. Then surely they could be paid enough to live decently!" "But whose interest would it be to employ them without profit?" "The State should do it, if no one else will." I had been playing a game with Sylvia, as no doubt you have perceived. "Surely," I said, "you wouldn't approve anything like that!" "But why not?" "Because, it would be Socialism." She looked at me startled. "Is that Socialism?" "Of course it is. It's the essence of Socialism." "But then—what's the harm in it?" I laughed. "I thought you said that Socialism was a menace, like divorce!" I had my moment of triumph, but then I discovered how fond was the person who imagined that he could play with Sylvia. "I suspect you are something of a Socialist yourself," she remarked.[...]".

Fictionalizes the turbulent relationship between twentieth-century poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, including the role played by Sylvia's rival, Assia Wevill.

Excerpt from Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel I AM telling the story of Sylvia Castleman. I should prefer to tell it without mention of myself; but it was written in the book of fate that I should be a decisive factor in her life, and so her story presupposes mine. I imagine the impatience of a reader, who is promised a heroine out of a romantic and picturesque society world, and finds himself beginning with the autobiography of a farmer's wife on a solitary homestead in Mani toba. But then I remember that Sylvia found me interesting. Putting myself in her place, remem bering her eager questions and her exclamations, I am able to see myself as a heroine Of fiction. I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first common person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off, and wondered vaguely about us, consoling herself with the reflection that we probably did not know enough to be unhappy over our sad lot in life. But here I was, actually a soul like herself; and it happened that'i knew more than she did, and of things she desperately needed to know. SO all the luxury, power and prestige that had been given to Sylvia Castleman seemed as nothing beside Mary Abbott, with her modern attitude and her common-sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.