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A hotel for ambitious women and their New York dreams Immortalized by Sylvia Plath, the Barbizon offered liberation, writes Paulina Bren. By Mary Jo MurphyThe Washington Post Share Sylvia Plath wrote excitedly to her brother after she won a spot as a guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine: “I feel like a collegiate Cinderella whose fairy Godmother suddenly hopped out of the mailbox and said: ‘What is your first woosh?’ and I, Cinderella, said: ‘New York,’ and she winked, waved her pikestaff, and said: ‘Woosh granted.’ ” Cover courtesy of Simon & Schuster Review By Paulina Bren Simon & Schuster. 321 pages. $27 For more than half a century, single young women across the country shared 20-year-old Plath’s “woosh.” New York had exerted its timeless pull on them; it was there that they could trade hometown destinies for big-city dreams, the preordained for the possible.

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