The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside
The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression - are a key source for the poems which make up her collections
Ariel and
The Colossus.
'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the
Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times

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- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- PUBLISHER’S NOTE
- JOURNAL July 1950 – July 1953
- JOURNAL 22 November 1955 – 18 April 1956
- JOURNAL 15 July 1956
- JOURNAL 22 July 1956 – 26 August 1956
- JOURNAL 3 January 1957–11 March 1957
- JOURNAL 15 July 1957–21 August 1957
- JOURNAL 28 August 1957–14 October 1958
- JOURNAL 12 December 1958–15 November 1959
- APPENDICES NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
- APPENDIX I : Journal Fragment 17–19 October 1951
- APPENDIX 2 : Back to School Commandments
- APPENDIX 3 : Journal Fragments 24 March 1953 – 9 April 1953
- APPENDIX 4 : Journal Fragment 19 June 1953
- APPENDIX 5 : Letter June – July 1953
- APPENDIX 6 : Journal Fragment 31 December 1955 – 1 January 1956
- APPENDIX 7 : Journal 26 March 1956 – 5 April 1956
- APPENDIX 8 : Journal Fragment1 April 1956
- APPENDIX 9 : Journal Fragment16 April 1956
- APPENDIX 10 : Journal 26 June 1956 – 6 March 1961
- APPENDIX 11 : JournalJune 1957 – June 1960
- APPENDIX 12 : Letter 1 October 1957
- APPENDIX 13 : Journal Fragment 5 November 1957
- APPENDIX 14 : Hospital Notes
- APPENDIX 15 : Journal 1962
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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