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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...
On the American cover, Plath is pictured in a black-and-white photograph dating from 1955. She wears a dark coat, bundled up for the cold of Cambridge, and smiles as she glances away from the camera.
For Sylvia Plath, less was more -- at least, when it came to her favorite cocktail. Discover which iconic tipple was beloved by the famed poet, here.
Plus, as the scholar points out, Plath only even had blonde hair for about three months (“We know brunette Sylvia was how Plath wanted to present herself,” she writes), so using such a photo ...
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry Newly released private letters to her psychologist reveal the import behind Plath's tragedy ...
"The Last Confessions of Sylvia P" uses three interconnected stories to explore the life and literary legacy of poet Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath may have died at the age of 30, but in her short life she produced an enormous body of writing. She wrote a radio play, a children's book, dozens of short stories, and numerous ...
Sylvia Plath started writing 'Double Exposure,' a fictionalized autobiography about an artist who discovers her husband has cheated on her. Then the novel went missing.
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child.