Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober, was a master’s student at Boston University when she met Plath’s father, Otto Plath, who was her ...

Sylvia Plath was 30 years of age when she died by suicide in 1963 ... Nevertheless, her writing clearly anticipates second-wave feminist analysis, describing male violence and the domestic servitude ...

In 1950s America, women were not supposed to be ambitious. In fact, women were respected for not pursuing their own careers and instead focusing their attentions on the home and family. Sylvia ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath is an essential yet strangely discomforting volume. It includes writing so apparently far removed from the work for which Plath is remembered – her late poems and ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath ...

The American poet Sylvia Plath lived at two addresses in Primrose Hill in the early 1960s. Her blue plaque can be found at 3 Chalcot Square, where she lived with her husband Ted Hughes from January ...

Kirkus Reviews “Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves, one that takes her seriously as both a poet and a person. Combining rigorous research with in-depth literary analysis and immersive ...

Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product In this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The ...