New Book Covers on SylviaPlath.info

This is a post to advertise many of the new* book covers added recently to A celebration, this is.

The following books can be found on the Books, Criticisms, Memoirs & others page:

Sylvia Plath: Voice and Vision by Gayle Wurst (1999), Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar edited by Harold Bloom (2009), The Plath Cabinet by Catherine Bowman (2009). The cover for Bowman's The Plath Cabinet reproduces some of the paper dresses held at the the Lilly Library, Indiana University at Bloomington. The paper dresses largely inspired Bowman's poetry collection.

And, for my favorite, which can be found on the Prose books page: The Bell Jar (Braille edition - Cover) and The Bell Jar (Braille edition - Title Page, pictured left. You may have to angle your monitor differently or crane your neck a bit to see the text). The Braille edition is a four volume, spiral bound set, printed by the Royal National Institute of Blind People, London, England. Of course Braille is named for Louis Braille, born on 4 January, 1809, or just over 200 years ago.

The Plath books in translation (which includes biographies and works of criticism in foreign languages) is still on my list of pages to revamp; likely sometime later this winter or spring. I have many new book covers, sent to me through this amazing internet, from various persons, to which I say thank you!

*New as in new to the site, not necessarily new to the world.

Sylvia Plath's Gravestone Vandalized

The following news story appeared online this morning: HEPTONSTALL, ENGLAND (APFS) - The small village of Heptonstall is once again in the news because of the grave site of American poet Sylvia Plath. The headstone controversy rose to a fever pitch in 1989 when Plath's grave was left unmarked for a long period of time after vandals repeatedly chiseled her married surname Hughes off the stone marker. Author Nick Hornby commented, "I like Plath, but the controversy reaching its fever pitch in the 80s had nothing to do with my book title choice." Today, however, it was discovered that the grave was defaced but in quite an unlikely fashion. This time, Plath's headstone has had slashed-off her maiden name "Plath," so the stone now reads "Sylvia Hughes." A statement posted on Twitter from @masculinistsfortedhughes (Masculinists for Ted Hughes) has claimed responsibility saying that, "We did this because as Ted Hughes' first wife, Sylvia de

Famous Quotes of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath inspires us all in various and wonderful ways. She is in many respects a form of comfort to us, which is something that Esther Greenwood expresses in The Bell Jar , about a bath: "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.'" We read and remember Sylvia Plath for many reasons, many of them deeply personal and private. But we commemorate her, too, in very public ways, as Anna of the long-standing Tumblr Loving Sylvia Plath , has been tracking, in the form of tattoos. (Anna's on Instagram with it too, as SylviaPlathInk .) The above bath quote is among Sylvia Plath's most famous. It often appears here and there and it is stripped of its context. But I think most people will know it is from her nove

Sylvia Plath and McLean Hospital

In August when I was in the final preparations for the tour of Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar sites, I found that I had long been mistaken about a couple of things. This is my coming clean. It was my intention in this blog post to discuss just McLean, but I found myself deeply immersed in other aspects of Plath's recovery. The other thing I was mistaken about will be discussed in a separate blog post. I suppose I need to state from the outset that I am drawing conclusions from Plath's actual experiences from what she wrote in The Bell Jar and vice versa, taking information from the novel that is presently unconfirmed or murky and applying it to Plath's biography. There is enough in The Bell Jar , I think, based on real life to make these decisions. At the same time, I like to think that I know enough to distinguish where things are authentic and where details were clearly made up, slightly fudged, or out of chronological order. McLean Hospital was Plath's third and last

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