It’s been 50 years since Sylvia Plath committed suicide in her North London flat, yet her writings and poems continue to inspire a new generation of artists.
Girls creator Lena Dunham was among the artists who have contributed to The Guardian’s recent retrospective on Plath, her work, and what it means to artists of today. In her piece, Dunham wonders whether Plath would have met the same untimely death had she been born in a different time.