The publishing history of Sylvia Plath's books has been one of time (duration) and improvement. It is an endlessly fascinating subject, how Sylvia Plath has been edited since she passed away. The period of 1963 to 1974 in particular could be a thesis. But this blog post is concerned with those books published starting in 1975. Letters Home came out in 1975 in the US and the following year in the UK. This was followed by Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams  in 1977 and 1979, Collected Poems in 1982, and  The Journals of Sylvia Plath  (abridged; and in the US only) in 1982. That is four major volumes in seven years.  The Journals were reissued worldwide in an unabridged format eighteen years after the original version in 2000, which was two years after the passing of Ted Hughes and about four or five years after he and his sister Olwyn turned over control of the Estate of Sylvia Plath to Frieda and the late Nicholas Hughes.  Ariel (first published in 1965 in the UK and with a di