Sylvia Plath Collections: Boxes 3 and 4

As promised, here are the item lists for boxes 3 and 4 of the Harriet Rosenstein research files on Sylvia Plath, which I hope helps to provide addition access to the materials as listed in the collection's finding aid. And a reminder that some folders were skipped.

Box 3

Folder 1: Evelyn Page

Folder 2: Robert T. Peterson

Folder 3: Aurelia Plath

Folder 4: Otto Plath

Folder 5: Otto Plath

Folder 6: Otto Plath

Folder 7: Otto Plath

Folder 8: Sylvia Plath articles by

Folder 9: Sylvia Plath letters

Folder 10: Sylvia Plath McLean Hospital record

Folder 12: Pat O'Neill Pratson

Folder 13: Alison Prentice

Folder 14: Paul and Clarissa Roche

Folder 15: Harriet Rosenstein doctoral prospectus and book proposal

Box 4

Folder 1: Harriet Rosenstein draft fragments

Folder 2: General correspondence

Folder 3: Shorthand notes

Folder 4: Jon Rosenthal

Folder 5: M. L. Rosenthal

Folder 6: Richard Sassoon

Folder 7: David and Lorna Secker-Walker

Folder 8: Anne Sexton

Folder 9: Margaret Shook

Folder 10: Elizabeth Sigmund

Folder 11: Alison V. Smith

Folder 13: Nancy Hunter Steiner

Folder 14: William Sterling

Folder 15: Marcia Brown Stern (letters from Plath)

Folder 16: Marcia Brown Stern

Folder 17: Anthony Thwaite

Folder 18: Aileen Ward

Folder 19: Fay Weldon

Folder 20: Richard Wertz

Folder 21: Eric Walter White

Folder 22: Ruth Whitman

Folder 23: J. Mallory Wober

Folder 24: J. Melvin Woody

All links accessed 7 February 2020

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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