The silent woman : Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
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Published
New York : Vintage, 1995.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Vintage, 1995.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Language
English
Lexile measure
1560
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Description
This volume explores the legacy of the works of American writer and poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The author discusses how Plath's reputation was forged from the poems she wrote just before her suicide; how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters - Plath's art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath's work. This book is less about the life of Plath than about her posthumous existence and at the struggles of her biographers to penetrate, document and interpret her history and her husband's role in it.
Target Audience
1560L,Lexile
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