Letters Home
eBook - ePub

Letters Home

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eBook - ePub

Letters Home

About this book

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close and confiding relationship, but there are also some to her brother Warren and her benefactress Mrs Prouty.

Plath's energy, enthusiasm and her passionate tackling of life burst onto these pages, providing us with a vivid and intimate portrait of a woman who has come to be regarded as one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, however, these letters also hint at Plath's potential for deep despair, which reached its crisis when she holed up in a London flat for the terrible winter of 1963.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571266340
Edition
0
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. FRONTISPIECE: Sylvia Plath posing with a crystal ball, spring 1955
  4. FRONTISPIECE: Sylvia and her mother in Winthrop, Mass., August 1937
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. PART ONE : September 27, 1950–June 1953
  10. PART TWO : Summer 1953–August 12, 1955
  11. PART THREE : September 25, 1955–April 29, 1956
  12. PART FOUR : May 3, 1956–June 17, 1957
  13. PART FIVE : July 1957–October 28, 1959
  14. PART SIX : December 13, 1959–August 25, 1961
  15. PART SEVEN : September 4, 1961–February 4, 1963
  16. List of Poems
  17. About the Author
  18. Copyright