by Sylvia Plath
First published 2018
This collection presents Sylvia Plath's personal correspondence from 1957 to 1963, the final years before her death at thirty. The Pulitzer Prize winner writes candidly to family, friends, and colleagues about her marriage to poet Ted Hughes, the births of her children Frieda and Nicholas, and her growing literary success including the publication of The Bell Jar. Her letters reveal her creative ambitions alongside her ongoing battle with depression. The correspondence spans her most productive period as a writer while documenting the personal struggles that would ultimately lead to her suicide. These previously unpublished letters offer readers direct access to Plath's thoughts, fears, and artistic vision during the most crucial years of her career. The volume completes the comprehensive collection of her correspondence, providing an unfiltered view of one of literature's most celebrated poets through her own voice.
Genres: literary-criticism, literary-fiction, 20th-century, autobiography, mental-illness, poetry, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-correspondence, unreliable-narrator
Period: 1957-1963
ebook · Faber Faber
Content warnings: depression, mental-illness, suicide