During a visit to SP
by her mother
, Ted Hughes
divided his time between Devon and London, between Sylvia and Assia
. He and Plath had all but separated.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
160-2
Family and Intimate relationships
Sylvia Plath
SP
's mother, Aurelia (Schober) Plath
, was a well-educated woman who loved language and literature, and who vowed her children would never have to do such grunt work as typing form letters to earn...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sylvia Plath
Aurelia Plath
attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...
Literary responses
Sylvia Plath
Aurelia Plath
, talking of her daughter in lectures after her death, censored her portrayal of motherhood in this play, making it more positive than it really is.
Rose, Jacqueline. “Mothers”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 12, 19 June 2014, pp. 17-22.
22
Residence
Sylvia Plath
Aurelia Plath
, SP
's mother, now a widow, moved her family to Wellesley, on the outskirts of Boston.
Plath, Aurelia, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, Harper and Row, 1975, pp. 3-40.
29
Textual Features
Sylvia Plath
Sometimes called the October poems, these works share a vindictiveness in tone, and also a tremendous rhythmic and technical mastery.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
166
In a letter to her mother
, SP
indicated that domesticity had imprisoned...
Textual Production
Sylvia Plath
SP
's letters first appeared in print in Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, a posthumous collection written to, and also edited and published by, her mother, Aurelia Plath
.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
39-42
Timeline
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Texts
Plath, Aurelia, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, Harper and Row, 1975, pp. 3-40.