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Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.

Most of Sylvia’s “smart-tongued” comments and sexual references were excised from the text by her mother. The April 29, 1956 letter on display about Plath’s future husband, Ted Hughes, is full of ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...

Emma Tenzler recounts three chance encounters from history which went on to redefine literature ...

Film Director Ted destroys everything he touches, including the women in his life. Based on the Ted Hughes/Sylvia Plath story where Ted is a film director and Sylvia is an actress.

Fifty years after her life abruptly ended, and as fresh furore erupts over a newly-designed cover of her seminal novel The Bell Jar, Melissa Bradshaw responds to the pervading myth of Sylvia Plath as ...