Sylvia Plath

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Standard Name: Plath, Sylvia
Birth Name: Sylvia Plath
Married Name: Sylvia Hughes
SP was primarily a poet, and most famously a confessional poet, although she also wrote a novel, a radio play, short stories and a book for children. She is best known for the poems she wrote in the last eighteen months that she lived. Her life story, complete with her suicide at the age of thirty, tends to overshadow her literary achievement, although critics of recent decades have made strides towards preserving her literary contribution and promoting its value.
Black-and-white photo portrait of Sylvia Plath, looking directly at the camera and seated in front of bookshelves.

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Literary responses Anne Stevenson
Germaine Greer praises her in Slip-Shod Sibyls for expressing consciousness of herself as a woman poet rather than the woman poet, for looking forward to the forging of a new language in which women would...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS 's life of Sylvia Plath , Bitter Fame, was published by Viking in London and Houghton Mifflin in Boston; even before it appeared it was immensely controversial.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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Material Conditions of Writing Anne Stevenson
AS published another volume of poetry, The Other House, written as she worked on her Sylvia Plath biography.
Stevenson, Anne. The Other House. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anne Stevenson
He came back into her adult life in September 1953, and finally the Great Marriage Problem seemed settled.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
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American boyfriends tried to dissuade her, but she ignored them boneheadedly.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 279
She...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published what one critic described as a kind of soap-opera biography or literary thriller about Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes , and Assia Wevill , The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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Literary responses P. L. Travers
Sylvia Plath spoke a great deal about Mary Poppins, calling her the fairy godmother of her childhood.
Lawson, Valerie. Mary Poppins She Wrote. The Life of P. L. Travers, London: Aurum Press 2005. Aurum Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
Gardens of Eden begins by quoting Genesis and the Alphabet of Ben Sira. In the latter (source for the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife) Lilith claims equality with Adam.
Wandor, Michelene. Gardens of Eden. Journeyman.
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The Alphabet...
Friends, Associates Fay Weldon
Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath , David and Assia Wevill , Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard , Bernice Rubens , psychologist R. D. Laing
Intertextuality and Influence Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In 1951, however, the poet Louise Bogan set out to recuperate her as the founder of a whole feminine school of rather daring verse on the subject of feminine and masculine emotions.
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press.
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Emily Stipes Watts

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