Bitter Fame (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1932-1963
- Setting: The United States and England
- Principal Characters: Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Plath, Otto Plath, Ted Hughes, Olwyn Hughes, Dido Merwin
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Suicide, Psychology or psychologists, Literature, Marriage, Poetry or poets, England or English people, London, Fame
- Locales: United States, England
In the preface to Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987), Linda Wagner-Martin explains the difficulty that she had in dealing with Sylvia Plath’s estate. In particular, she mentions Olwyn Hughes, who demanded revisions that would have fundamentally altered Wagner-Martin’s biography. Several friends of Plath and Hughes would not speak to Wagner-Martin. Now they have not only assisted Anne Stevenson but also included their own vivid reminiscences as appendices to her biography. Indeed, Olwyn Hughes’s contribution is so great that Stevenson calls their collaboration “almost a work...
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