That being said, please do yourself a favor and read Andrew Wilson's "Sylvia Plath in love: A mesmerising portrait of the tragic poet as a young, sexually uninhibited sun-loving party girl - told by the lovers she discarded for Ted Hughes" and revel in the story it tells. While you are at it, please also gasp at the amazing, rarely or never before published in color photographs of Sylvia Plath, largely from the Lameyer Mss. at the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Having read Wilson's manuscript, I can say that the coverage in this article fits the publisher of the article and hopefully will not shy people away from picking up his book, which is a careful, insightful, and absorbing biography of Sylvia Plath's first 23 years.
While we are thinking about Andrew Wilson and his book, the BBC's Radio 4 does a Book of the Week, in which the said book is serialized for the duration of a week. Andrew Wilson's 2013 biography Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted is the book selection for the week beginning Monday 11 February. Mad Girls Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted is published on 5 February 2013 by Simon & Schuster.
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The photos are incredible and Plath (of whom I've only seen 2 color photos previously) seems physically more real to me than ever before. Thanks for the link, Peter.
Maura
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