They represent the first time that Plath has been allowed to speak for herself since her death in 1963. While over a hundred biographies and critical works have been written about Sylvia Plath, no ...

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. As a corrective to the American edition of The Bell Jar, Aurelia Plath published a selection of her daughter’s letters in 1975. Most of Sylvia’s “smart-tongued” comments ...

“I could not have written [this book] without the embodied experience of loving Sylvia Plath ... ability to recognize in ...

Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry. They consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating her as a ...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963 ... W.G. Sebald, a German writer, made it his life's work to deal with the Holocaust and its aftermath. I particularly love this magisterial and melancholic ...