On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ivy wrote:
> Plath books:
>
> The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Jacqueline Rose)
> Revising Life (Susan R Van Dyne)
> Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage Series (Linda Wagner-Martin; any of her
> books on Plath is tops, she's written about 3 or 4)
> The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Janet Malcolm) [Quite
> pro-Ted Hughes]
> Bitter Fame (Anne Stevenson) [Also pro-Ted Hughes, but then that might be
> Olwyn Hughes' influence on Stevenson]
>
> These should be a good start. Revising Life is the most intelligent,
> blow-you-away reading, in my mind.
>
It might be worth mentioning that _The Silent Woman_ is not so much
pro-Ted Hughes as anti-anti-Ted Hughes, and concentrates not on Plath and
Hughes per se, but on the Plath industry and posthumous receptions. I
think it's a fascinating account of the perils of writing biography.
David Latane
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