When J (for Joseph) Mallory Wober first saw Sylvia Plath at a Labour Club meeting, he thought she might have been a town prostitute. He was born, a year to the day, after Warren Plath. After that he lived for a while in Bombay, India, arriving in Liverpool, England from Bombay, India, on 9 December 1945. Wober was a student at King's College, Cambridge, and lived on Peas Hill, at the time he met Plath. We are told at the beginning of these transcripts that most of the interview was not recorded because apparently Wober "forced" Rosenstein to "march" through Hyde Park, Belgravia, and Sloane Square. Exaggerate much? Wober told Rosenstein that Plath's "eyes were most expressive of the intensity of her existence." While in Cambridge, Wober asserts "her time was spent fighting off people who recognized her as a special kind of person." She was "beset" with admirers. Around Plath he felt "illumined" and more alive. He fe...

Just found out about the following two articles published in 2010. Wootten, William. "'The Alchemical Power': The Literary Relationship of A. Alvarez and Sylvia Plath.” The Cambridge Quarterly 39:3. 2010: 217-236. Meyers, Jeffrey. “Sylvia Plath’s Mysterious Lover.” Yale Review 98:4. October 2010: 88-102. This appears to be Wootten’s first foray into Plath; while Meyers has previously published, at least, the following two articles: Meyers, Jeffrey. "Literary Allusions in Sylvia Plath's Journals." Notes on Contemporary Literature 32:1. Spring 2002: 9-11. Meyers, Jeffrey. "Sylvia Plath: The Paintings in the Poems." Word & Image 20:2. April-June 2004: 107-122. Meyers also gave Plath a little coverage in his Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle (New York: Arbor House, 1987). Also in the news yesterday from the Telegraph is “ The language that lovers share is a 'window' into the state of their relationship ” by Richard Alleyne. This...