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These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Gail Crowther and I have, today, submitted the manuscript of our book of essays, These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath, to our publisher Fonthill.

The authors mirroring Plath & Hughes in 3 Chalcot Square, London
As many of you may know, Gail and I co-wrote a series of five papers entitled "These Ghostly Archives" which appeared in Plath Profiles from 2009 to 2013. While we encourage you to re-read these papers (linked here), please do not memorize them or anything as they have all be revised and expanded extensively. We did this as the narrative of the book is necessarily different to the way they were presented in their annual publications in the journal.

The Lilly Library, Indiana University at Bloomington
The book has an introduction and eight chapters (5 conversation chapters in the vein of the original papers, two solo chapters, and one jointly written chapter). In addition, we have submitted a number of photographs of Plath (many previously unpublished), of places she lived and wrote about, and archival documents among others.

Court Green, North Tawton, Devon
We will keep you posted on this blog and on Gail's website with any updates that we can and hope to see the book in print sometime in the late Spring of 2017.

Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

In the meantime, please do get yourselves ready for Gail's excellent new book: The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath, which will be published by Fonthill in 24 days (Amazon.co.uk).



All links accessed 1 August 2016.

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  1. Julia Gordon-Bramer01 August, 2016 16:28

    Excited!

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  2. Eva Stenskar01 August, 2016 18:09

    This is so exciting! So many books to look forward too. Thank you for all your hard work. I can barely sleep now!

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  3. Peter K Steinberg03 August, 2016 09:10

    Thank you Julia and Eva! Very nice comments which are must appreciated. It seems, Eva, that you're taking from us the sleep we lost at a time when we're going to be catching up! Get some rest, though, please.

    ~pks

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  4. Anonymous03 August, 2016 17:31

    Can't wait!

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  5. A Piece of Plathery05 August, 2016 19:28

    Looking forward to both books :)

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  6. Jessica McCort06 September, 2016 12:41

    Exciting news! j

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  7. steve16 November, 2016 18:55

    Peter, your website and blog are AMAZING! I MUST get your signature for your book the next time you head my way!

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  8. Anna28 December, 2016 18:14

    I know this blog post is a little older, but I have been quite absent from everything Plath this year. Planning to jump back on the Plath train again in 2017 and can't wait!

    This is why I have stumbled upon this post just now for the first time and I had a good laugh at the picture of you and Gail mirroring Plath and Hughes. It is marvelous! Love it! :)

    The main reason why I came across this post is that I just remembered Gail's new book and when I tried to order it, it seems kind of impossible! Every site says it is out of stock and when I checked Fonthill Media's website, it is not even listed there. The only book by Gail Crowther is Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Has the book been published yet, because I am also not able to find used copies anywhere? This seems really odd!

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  9. Anna28 December, 2016 18:17

    Oh, I just checked amazon.com and there it says that it will be released on February 13, 2017? So the publication has been delayed?

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  10. Anna28 December, 2016 18:27

    Oh! I just read about the delay in your 2016 review blog post! Happy to learn that it is just a delay and not a tiny limited edition, because this is what I suspected! Ok, so I am impatiently waiting for the release in February!

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