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Record W2076608050 · doi:10.1093/notesj/gjp142

An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath

2009· article· en· W2076608050 on OpenAlex
Irralie Doel, Lendra Friesen, P. K. Steinberg

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueNotes and Queries · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsToronto Public Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoetryLibrary scienceHistoryMedia studiesSociologyArt historyArtLiteratureComputer science

Abstract

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AN unacknowledged publication by Sylvia Plath has been discovered in joint research investigations.1 An unidentified magazine publication is referred to by Plath in a letter to her mother dated 9 November 1961: I’ll send for a copy of my awful first ladies’ magazine story—very stiff and amateurish. It came out my birthday week. I got a very sweet fan letter for it in which the woman, also a writer, took me for an expert on Canada and Whitby, the sailing port I visited for a day. Very flattering! …2 Smith College also holds a draft manuscript of ‘The Lucky Stone’. From reading this it was possible to verify that this was indeed the story Plath discusses in Letters Home through the protagonist Joanna's association with Canada (‘She might even, she thought longingly, be home in Canada again’), and, although the town is not named explicitly, the description of Whitby (‘The few remaining visitors hadn’t yet come down to stroll along the harbour from where the fishing fleet anchored, or across the bridge leading to the old section of the town under the ruined abbey perched atop its headland like a great, grey seabird.’).3 Plath's Chalcot Square address appears on the draft, dating it to sometime between January 1960 and August 1961. Also on the draft, in Plath's handwriting, is ‘Sold £15.15.0 by Jennifer Hassell’. An entry for Jennifer Hassell was located in Plath's address book, also held in Smith College. Hassell's business address was care of A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd., then located at 35 Dover Street, London W1, which suggests that she was Plath's agent in these transactions.4

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.964
Threshold uncertainty score0.950

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it