Dec 30, 2009

Bitter Fame | Bitter Fame

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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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Bitter Fame | Bitter Fame

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