Object of desire

A prize for scribes is Sylvia Plath’s final typewriter, the Hermes 3000. It was used to write her only novel, The Bell Jar, published in 1963 – two months before she committed suicide. Plath had left her husband Ted Hughes and moved with their children to a pretty maisonette in North London’s Primrose Hill, chosen partly because she saw the Blue Plaque on the exterior wall that reads “WB Yeats lived here” as ...