Novel Update

The selling of my entire Sylvia Plath library to Utica University posted yesterday may have forecasted this blog post. Effective today the fifteen-year-old Sylvia Plath Info Blog is on hiatus. Whether it is temporary, semi-permanent, or permanent is yet to be determined. (There is still one blog post drafted...) This decision is the result of several years of serious thought, reflection, and

Since 1994 Sylvia Plath has been a massive part of my life. For Christmas that year I received a copy of The Bell Jar, The Collected Poems, and Paul Alexander's Rough Magic. Within a year I had, at a minimum, Letters Home, the yellow paperback copy of The Journals, Susan Van Dyne's Revising Life, and Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame.    Like the speaker of Plath's poem "The

Earlier this spring at the Lilly Library I spent some time with Sylvia Plath's short story "The Fifteen Dollar Eagle" which is held in the Plath mss collection. This is the collection of papers Plath herself selected for selling to the bookseller Ifan Kyrle Fletcher who was buying manuscripts for the Lilly. I do not know much about religion. Any of them. But I was struck curious by the

There were some letters referred to in this morning's blog post that I thought it might be nice to write a bit more about. Sylvia Plath wrote two letters to Kenneth Allott which are housed by the Syndey Jones Library at the University of Liverpool. When in the midst of working on the paper that I gave for the Sylvia Plath Society's conference in March (YouTube), I found myself going down a

The following is the text from a paper I presented on 12 March 2022 for the Sylvia Plath Society's "Sylvia Plath Across the Century" conference. I am grateful to Dr Dorka Tamás, Kitty Shaw, and Julie Irigaray for organizing and hosting this important conference. A recording of this talk is available on the Sylvia Plath Info YouTube page.Sylvia Plath was a part of three Kathryn Irene Glascock

Susan O'Neill-Roe took a series of photographs of Sylvia Plath and her children from October to late November (or maybe early December) 1962 while she was a day nanny/mother's help at Court Green. From nearby Belstone, it was a short drive to North Tawton and the aid she provided enabled Plath to complete the masterful October and November poems and also to make day or overnight trips to London

This Autumn, Faber and Faber are issuing an edition of The Bell Jar illustrated by Beya Rebaï. In their Autumn 2022 catalog, a draft of the cover was featured: To be published on 6 October 2022, the book's ISBN is 9780571373079. The hardback price is £14.99. It will be 256pp. Available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk.All links accessed 25 June 2022.

While not a full year in review, this blog post looks back from January to yesterday to summarize what went on in the world of Sylvia Plath as I lived it. My own experiences are limited and not exhaustive, but I hope this summary is in some way useful. There were two books to come out so far: Patricia Grisafi's Breaking Down Plath in February and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath in April