tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45573640204397933722024-03-11T02:15:54.854-04:00Sylvia Plath InfoSylvia Plath Info Blog by Peter K. Steinberg. The blog of <strong><a href="https://te992faff27c68c1d.starter1ua.preservica.com/">A celebration, this is</a></strong>.Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comBlogger1381125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-54645581711389102122024-02-11T07:39:00.000-05:002024-02-11T07:39:54.954-05:00Sylvia Plath and the Glow-Worm SongSylvia Plath's mother loved to tell the story about how her daughter co-opted some of her own experiences in the lines in the fourth stanza of the poem "The Disquieting Muses" which read,In December last year, a random thought popped in my own dismal head and that song mentioned, "the glowworm song". The reason this song and this stanza came to the forefront of my mind was the lovable scene in Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-47553100346635963362024-01-01T10:54:00.000-05:002024-01-01T10:54:46.076-05:00Sylvia Plath in ParisSylvia Plath was in Paris five times in one calendar year. More specifically, she visited Paris five times from December 1955 to August 1956, that's within nine months.Her first stay was from 20 December to 31 December 1955. She touched her feet in Paris again upon her return from Nice and the south of France on 8-9 January 1956. Plath was in Paris for another long stretch from 24 MarchPeter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-63284987355908118172023-11-14T11:26:00.004-05:002023-11-14T11:26:58.534-05:00Sale results: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Property of Frieda HughesToday, 14 November 2023, was the Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts auction of twenty-five lots of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes books from the property, or now former property of Frieda Hughes. In the last few years, the Plath and Hughes rare book market has been simply flooded with stock but this has not, at least in the case of Plath who is more collectible than Hughes, meant that prices in the Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-12377838648423594522023-10-17T11:45:00.001-04:002023-10-17T11:45:39.091-04:00Frieda Hughes to Auction Sylvia Plath/Ted Hughes items with BonhamsThe following are the lots in the 14 November 2023 auction of The Property of Frieda Hughes of Sylvia Plath (lots 108-118) and Ted Hughes (lots 94-107) items.
Ted Hughes:
Lot 94: HUGHES (TED)
Meet My Folks!, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED, Faber and Faber, 1961
Lot 95: HUGHES (TED)
The New Poetry. A Selection Selected and Introduced by A. Alvarez, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-31556604510507670202023-10-04T07:14:00.001-04:002023-10-17T10:04:58.214-04:00Frieda Hughes to Auction Sylvia Plath/Ted Hughes items with BonhamsBonhams Knightsbridge is set to auction more than two dozen lots of books from the library and collection of Frieda Hughes that she was either given or inherited from her parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The date of the auction is 14 November 2023. Copies of works by Sylvia Plath include: A Winter Ship, The Colossus, The Bell Jar, Ariel, Three Women, Crystal Gazer and Other Poems,Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-4554379086296277502023-08-31T11:00:00.006-04:002023-08-31T11:00:53.588-04:00Sylvia Plath in HaworthOf the many reasons to accept the offer to teach Sylvia Plath at the Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School at Lumb Bank in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, one of the perks of the offer was the midweek day off from teaching in which the group journeyed to Haworth to visit the Brontë Parsonage and make the walk to Top Withens, the house that is rumored to have inspired Emily Brontë's beautiful, Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-87931931308950202782023-04-10T09:36:00.000-04:002023-04-10T09:36:05.415-04:00More Sylvia Plath materials to Utica UniversityFollowing the sale last year of all my books by and about Sylvia Plath (including works by and about Ted Hughes, Frieda Hughes and Assia Wevill, too), this blog post is to announce that more materials are now at Utica University. I am grateful to Distinguished Professor of English Gary Leising for getting a Plath course permanently a part of the curriculum, and to James Teliha, Dean of the Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-61938104238724648772023-02-15T10:31:00.002-05:002023-03-10T06:58:48.188-05:00The Sylvia Plath Symposium at Hunter College, New York CityI am pleased to promote the Sylvia Plath Symposium at Hunter College in New York City which is to be held at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on Thursday, 30 March 2023. The address of the venue is 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065.The Symposium is organized by Paul Alexander, editor of Ariel Ascending: Writings about Sylvia Plath (1985), author of Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-49940211277705940862023-02-11T08:39:00.000-05:002023-02-11T08:39:51.787-05:00The 60th Anniversary of Sylvia Plath's Death2023 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar by Heinemann. It also marks---today, in fact---the 60th anniversary of Plath's death. Where is Sylvia Plath now? Bigger than ever. More widely read than ever. There are still people desecrating her grave due to some heinously flawed thinking and beliefs. And, too, there are still legions of Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-13786001633407305062023-01-03T10:57:00.001-05:002023-01-03T10:57:54.647-05:00The Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School 2023 at Lumb BankIt is an immense honor to have been asked to teach on Sylvia Plath at the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank, located in Heptonstall, England, in June 2023. The Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School course runs from the 18th to the 24th of June 2023, and I will be joining Heather Clark and Steve Ely, among others. Together, we will explore the work of Sylvia Plath (and Ted Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-27993186825585440192022-09-12T09:38:00.003-04:002022-09-12T09:38:33.701-04:00Closing sylviaplath.infoHello. I hope that each of you is well and had a nice summer. This is a brief blog update to let you know that later this fall, in early November probably, I will be closing down 'A celebration, this is', my website for Sylvia Plath, at the url www.sylviaplath.info. I recognize that many people have the website bookmarked and may even refer to it frequently, or infrequently. Like you, IPeter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-43703505636656022792022-07-07T10:44:00.000-04:002022-07-07T10:44:10.284-04:00"Hail and farewell. Hello, goodbye."The selling of my entire Sylvia Plath library to Utica University posted yesterday may have forecasted this blog post. Effective today the fifteen-year-old Sylvia Plath Info Blog is on hiatus. Whether it is temporary, semi-permanent, or permanent is yet to be determined. (There is still one blog post drafted...) This decision is the result of several years of serious thought, reflection, andPeter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-67321097723208338422022-07-06T10:35:00.001-04:002023-03-07T09:08:41.654-05:00"I shall never get [Sylvia Plath] put together entirely"Since 1994 Sylvia Plath has been a massive part of my life. For Christmas that year I received a copy of The Bell Jar, The Collected Poems, and Paul Alexander's Rough Magic. Within a year I had, at a minimum, Letters Home, the yellow paperback copy of The Journals, Susan Van Dyne's Revising Life, and Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame. Like the speaker of Plath's poem "The Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-70166098107751343132022-07-05T13:40:00.002-04:002022-07-05T13:40:54.688-04:00A possible source for Sylvia Plath's Fifteen Dollar EagleEarlier this spring at the Lilly Library I spent some time with Sylvia Plath's short story "The Fifteen Dollar Eagle" which is held in the Plath mss collection. This is the collection of papers Plath herself selected for selling to the bookseller Ifan Kyrle Fletcher who was buying manuscripts for the Lilly. I do not know much about religion. Any of them. But I was struck curious by the Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-23375923834641685752022-07-05T06:48:00.000-04:002022-07-05T06:48:10.503-04:00Sylvia Plath Collections: Letters to Kenneth AllottThere were some letters referred to in this morning's blog post that I thought it might be nice to write a bit more about. Sylvia Plath wrote two letters to Kenneth Allott which are housed by the Syndey Jones Library at the University of Liverpool. When in the midst of working on the paper that I gave for the Sylvia Plath Society's conference in March (YouTube), I found myself going down a Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-78831018860637305192022-07-04T09:58:00.001-04:002022-07-04T09:59:20.472-04:00Sylvia Plath and the Glascock Poetry ContestThe following is the text from a paper I presented on 12 March 2022 for the Sylvia Plath Society's "Sylvia Plath Across the Century" conference. I am grateful to Dr Dorka Tamás, Kitty Shaw, and Julie Irigaray for organizing and hosting this important conference. A recording of this talk is available on the Sylvia Plath Info YouTube page.Sylvia Plath was a part of three Kathryn Irene Glascock Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-6698352575556229332022-07-03T16:25:00.000-04:002022-07-03T16:25:24.331-04:00Some final photographs of Sylvia PlathSusan O'Neill-Roe took a series of photographs of Sylvia Plath and her children from October to late November (or maybe early December) 1962 while she was a day nanny/mother's help at Court Green. From nearby Belstone, it was a short drive to North Tawton and the aid she provided enabled Plath to complete the masterful October and November poems and also to make day or overnight trips to London Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-24327002499448987852022-07-02T08:41:00.000-04:002022-07-02T08:41:07.895-04:00Illustrated edition of Sylvia Plath's The Bell JarThis Autumn, Faber and Faber are issuing an edition of The Bell Jar illustrated by Beya Rebaï. In their Autumn 2022 catalog, a draft of the cover was featured: To be published on 6 October 2022, the book's ISBN is 9780571373079. The hardback price is £14.99. It will be 256pp. Available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk.All links accessed 25 June 2022.Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-53843890108073621752022-07-01T09:28:00.000-04:002022-07-01T09:28:24.689-04:00Sylvia Plath at Mid-Year 2022While not a full year in review, this blog post looks back from January to yesterday to summarize what went on in the world of Sylvia Plath as I lived it. My own experiences are limited and not exhaustive, but I hope this summary is in some way useful. There were two books to come out so far: Patricia Grisafi's Breaking Down Plath in February and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath in April Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-63894413072970302292022-06-30T10:09:00.001-04:002022-06-30T10:09:14.258-04:00Did you know:... Caution: Sylvia Plath's "Three Women" in Winter TreesIn November 2010 I visited for a day the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland, College Park, to work with the Frances McCullough papers. Recently browsing through the notes made there, I was reminded about a "Did you know..." post that I wanted to write. So it only took me 12 years...The UK edition of Plath's Winter Trees was published on 27 September 1971. The American edition wasPeter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-36921757766629295812022-06-29T09:13:00.000-04:002022-06-29T09:13:03.932-04:00Sylvia Plath in Smith College newspapersOne way to add context to Sylvia Plath's letters and journals---that is, to her autobiographical life---during her years at Smith College is to read what was written about her by her classmates and/or other peers in the Smith College Associated News (SCAN) or The Sophian. Plath mentioned SCAN in a letter from her first days at Smith (26 September 1950). But even though mentions in her own Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-58699880082606331272022-06-27T08:33:00.000-04:002022-06-27T08:33:44.919-04:00Reprinting Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath meticulously kept track of her publication endeavors. She made submissions lists from around the time she a junior in High School (1948-1949) to within days of her death in February 1963. She was assuredly the consummate professional. If a work was published she usually kept a copy of its appearance for herself, though there are some instances were poems or works in prose were not Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-10182001903180669192022-06-25T12:22:00.000-04:002022-06-25T12:22:03.238-04:00New Articles on Sylvia Plath's First Suicide AttemptNormally this kind of update appears in August, but for various reasons it is appearing today. Since I wrote last year, a number of new articles on Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt have been digitized. Each was transcribed and was added to the full bibliography of articles on Plath's first suicide attempt on my website, A celebration, this is.The ten new articles appear below."Missing StudentPeter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-46912990012699681262022-06-21T08:12:00.000-04:002022-06-21T08:12:58.217-04:00Sylvia Plath's Toll House CookiesOn 5 July 1943, Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother from Camp Weetamoe in New Hampshire that she consumed "5 Tollhouse cookies" (Letters Vol I, 10). From Smith College seven years later, Plath casually mentioned that if her mother wanted to send her something that "Toll house cookies will be most welcome. I’m too hungry to share many, so will eat them with my before-bed glass of milk" (202). By Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-33374206434770896602022-06-19T07:35:00.000-04:002022-06-19T07:35:32.683-04:00An undated, untitled prose work of Sylvia PlathA friend recently let me know about a typescript page of some unidentified, untitled prose of Plath's wondered if I had seen it before. The answer was no, not really. However, after reading said typescript and Googling a random phrase, I learned that it was in fact published in the 1982 abridged edition of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (published in the US only). Said text was printed in the Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.com