Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...

including Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. In just 10 years, Plath had joined the ranks of one of her Glascock judges. Frieda Hughes rescued her mother’s rebellious voice by publishing in 2004 the ...

ABOVE: Sylvia Plath, her mother and two children in 1962. Professor Lynda K Bundtzen, author of The Other Ariel points to the ‘bee’ poems Plath wrote in October 1962. “Why would any woman be ...

Reading the Plath-Beuscher letters and Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath, my lens of experience is being the mother of two very ...

As a corrective to the American edition of The Bell Jar, Aurelia Plath published a selection of her daughter’s letters in 1975. Most of Sylvia’s “smart-tongued” comments and sexual references were ...