Did Sylvia Plath predict it all? That’s what we’d like to think. In her work, we’re always looking for prophecies about her life – and when I say her life, I mostly mean her death. In her poem “Lady ...

It is true that this quote feels quite paradoxical. How can wanting everything mean we actually want nothing? However, like ...

Now unjustly overlooked, “The Ha-Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness. By Naomi Huffman The writer is remembered, ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer 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 incidental ...

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the ...

The reason why there are so many books about Sylvia Plath (not just biographies) is that she is multitudinous. So often misidentified as a confessional poet, she actually lived and wrote in the ...

Sylvia Plath loved to draw, write poems, keep bees, and tend to her two children. That a poet has now brought together all elements of the writer’s life in a book for young readers that celebrates ...

Despite how she aligns with the literary, there’s little that meaningfully connects Swift to Plath – least of all in their work – beyond the fact that both are (or were, in Plath’s case) industrious ...

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