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Peter K Steinberg. Editor: Prose of Sylvia Plath (2024). Co-editor: Collected Writings of Assia Wevill (2021) & Letters of Sylvia Plath Vols I & II.
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Sylvia Plath in front of Notre Dame, April 1956.
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#OTD
1 June 1953, Sylvia Plath had her photograph taken for the "Jobiographies feature" in the August 1953 issue of Mademoiselle.
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Are you interested in Sylvia Plath's famous tomato soup spice cake? Well, you can make it:
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Recently sent the final typescript of The Prose of Sylvia Plath to the publisher. Due out in about 14 months.
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Was Sylvia Plath channeling Emily Dickinson in her 1957-1958 Smith College English Department photograph?
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I can't believe The Letters of Sylvia Plath got, effectively, a WHOLE PAGE in the Wall Street Journal.
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Sylvia Plath
27 October 1932 - 11 February 1963
"I am I … I am powerful – but to what extent? I am I."
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For Sylvia Plath's 90th birthday---"a love gift. Utterly unasked for"
For a limited time only I'm offering to access to more than 3,300
#SylviaPlath
files: articles & obituaries & reviews (her works & some bios/criticisms).
Permission may be required.
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Sylvia Plath with James Joyce books near the Smith College waterfall at Paradise Pond, circa October 1954, I think.
#NationalBookLoversDay
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You can now, if you like, pre-order The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath which I've edited!
Pub date: 5 September 2024
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Sylvia Plath fed a Canadian deer blueberries. Would you?
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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in a high wind at Heptonstall
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Seeing the
@NewYorker
review of The Letters of Sylvia Plath in print gives me the good shivers. Thank you
@dchiasso
for such a beautiful, thoughtful, and epic review.
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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was published
#OTD
14 January 1963: that's 59 years ago. Show me, please, the first copy of the book that you bought/received.
This is mine.
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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol II was listed as a book of the decade in the Sunday Times (London): “Terrible in their intensity”, this first full collection of the poet’s late letters are “unmatched in literature”, said our chief literary critic John Carey.
#Vol1Matters
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"I am lost, I am lost, in the robes of all this light." --Sylvia Plath.
R.I.P.
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And when on 1 January 2021 you find two Sylvia Plath poems published in her lifetime---but that have gone unrecorded---you drink, right?
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Sylvia Plath sat in the tree at Top Withens on 31 August 1956. So did I and a number of others from the Sylvia Plath/Ted Hughes Summer School 24,400 days later on 21 June 2023.
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It is 6 September 2018 in the United Kingdom which means The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II is now published!
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"Maybe I was just too weird to begin with."
--Sylvia Plath
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Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January
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Did anyone receive (or give) anything
#sylviaplath
for Christmas?
Here is a photograph of Sylvia Plath playing Scrabble
#otd
70 years ago.
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Sylvia Plath, Sun worshiper who wrote a lot about the moon.
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Sylvia Plath eating homemade Toll House (aka chocolate chip) cookies at Ipswich, Mass., circa 19-23 June 1955
#NationalCookieDay
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Sylvia Plath at Ilo Pill's apartment in Harlem (Lexington Ave and 123rd Street) with (L-R) an aunt and her beau and Ilo Pill's mother, circa 28-31 March 1954.
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Poet Sylvia Plath died
#OTD
11 February 1963. She wrote in "Three Women":
"I find myself again. I am no shadow
Though there is a shadow starting from my feet. I am a wife.
The city waits and aches. The little grasses
Crack through stone, and they are green with life."
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#OTD
10 June 1953, more than a third of the way through her Guest Editorship at Mademoiselle, and what became her "Bell Jar" summer, Sylvia Plath was photographed atop the St. Regis Hotel in NYC. The dress is now at Smith College.
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If you were a friend of Sylvia Plath's family, in the mid-1950s you might have received these Christmas cards in the mail.
Happy holidays to you all. Be well, be safe, be warm.
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Sylvia Plath with her daughter Frieda Hughes on her first birthday, 1 April 1961.
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Sylvia Plath on
@Newnham_College
, Cambridge: "here, I feel, is the place to create. it is quiet, enchanting, with all the opportunity of the richest of private lives."
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It is undeniable that Sylvia Hughes (aka Sylvia Plath) has the best passport photograph of all time.
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In The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood's teacher calls a story she wrote 'factitious'. She didn't know what it meant so she looked it up: 'artificial, sham'.
This is
#SylviaPlath
's dictionary showing the exact words of the definition.
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#OTD
, 11 October 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote "The Applicant". But did she do so before or after she took Ted Hughes to the train station (at Exeter?) "with all his stuff, clothes, books, papers"? The next day she wrote "Daddy".
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Sylvia Plath at a formal dance in high school seventy years ago during the 1949-1950 school year.
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Not a day goes by that I do not search for Sylvia Plath.
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This paragraph in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is, I feel, among the most important. Not just in the novel itself, but also to how dangerous the distortions of living a real life under a bell jar can be.
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It's kind of small, but these are all the photographs of Sylvia Plath that we know about.
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It's a photograph of Sylvia Plath holding her drawing "Odds and Ends".
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Sylvia Plath was just over 14 1/2 years old in May 1947 when this photograph of her by a flowering bush was taken.
It is one of my favorites.
Reply and show me one of yours!
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Did you know that the Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963 will be published by
@FaberBooks
in less than one month? If you're excited, like & retweet!
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I haven't tweeted this for a while, but I think it every moment of every day. Thank you for your likes-retweets-comments. You make Sylvia Plath on Twitter a rewarding & enriching experience. I appreciate you all & feel truly privileged to interact with you. Thank you.
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Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was published
#otd
, 14 January 1963, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. I often wonder how she felt about the dust jacket. Do you? Do you like it? Here is one of the first reviews from the Glasgow Herald, 17 January 1963.
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#OTD
14 January 1963, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar was published by Heinemann in England. Today should be a worldwide holiday.
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Sylvia Plath on visiting Paris December 1955: "I have fallen in love with the city. It is all light, airy, spacious [...] Christmas, I went to services in Notre Dame, with its flower-decked altar to the Virgin, exquisite rose windows, and enchanting gargoyles." Letters, Volume 1
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A photograph of Sylvia Plath a day keeps the doctor away.
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You want to deface Sylvia Plath's grave? Do it naturally!
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Sylvia Plath loved spaghetti. Here's the number of times she wrote it in various documents.
Diaries
1944: 2
1945: 1
1946: 3
Calendars
1954-5: 2
1955: 3
1955-6: 6
1956-7: 1
1962: 9
Smith Scrapbook: 1
Letters:
Vol I: 3
Vol II: 7
#NationalSpaghettiDay
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Two views of
#SylviaPlath
on her birthday.
ALS to her mother, 27 October 1952 &
TLS to Hans-Joachim Neupert on 21 March 1952
Read the full letters in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1, 1940-1956.
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Something to consider:
Most of Sylvia Plath's creative work is unpublished.
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The full 62-page finding aid of Sylvia Plath materials I used to own is available at the
@UticaUniversity
Library Special Collections page:
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Paperback editions of The Letters of Sylvia Plath to be published by
@FaberBooks
in one month!! Don't judge these books by their glorious covers. They have some textual corrections and updates as well as, more importantly, new letters!
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My Sylvia Plath work-in-progress table is running out of space.
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We now know that there was a little writing/typing table in front of the window by the bookcase in the living room of 3 Chalcot Square.
#SylviaPlath
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Today is
#NationalChocolateChipDay
. Sylvia Plath enjoyed making chocolate chip (Toll House) cookies. Here she is eating cookies at Crane Beach, Ipswich, Mass. circa 19 or 23 June 1955.
#HappyFriday
. Eat Chocolate Chips.
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Remembering, today, Warren Plath, Sylvia Plath's brother, who passed away one year ago today.
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Smith College has published at long last an online finding aid to their major Sylvia Plath Collection!
#archives
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On this snowy day, I'm remembering a snowy visit to Sylvia Plath's grave in Heptonstall many moons ago...
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Baby Sylvia Plath with her mother and grandmother. Jamaica Plain, Mass., July 1933
#MothersDay
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Sylvia Plath by the waterfall at Paradise Pond at Smith College, circa October 1954. And the scene in October 2013.
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Let's just take a moment to appreciate how beautiful Sylvia Plath's signature is.
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Going to start reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar today. This is the 25th consecutive December in which I'll read it. But which edition? Choices, choices, choices...
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One of Sylvia Plath's bears.
That photograph album has SO much incredible information in it. I'm reacting far more emotionally to seeing it in its entirety than I thought I word. Whoa. Just whoa.
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"A ring of gold with the sun in it?
Lies. Lies and a grief."
--Sylvia Plath
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An amazing week ends for the Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School. Thanks to
@Plathbiography
and Arvon and all the students and guests. And to Helen for the Devon honey!
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Every once in a while I just have to stop and look at Sylvia Plath's starred ownership inscription in her copy of The Bell Jar.
Everything about this makes me smile.
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#OTD
19 April 1962 Sylvia Plath wrote, in a marathon of drafts, "Elm". Here is a photograph of
#SylviaPlath
with her children taken a few days later as well as the Court Green elms from the early 1970s.
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Congrats to
@crollyson
on the publication of Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1, issued by the
@upmiss
!!
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Sylvia Plath was born on this day in this building in Boston.
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Sometime in the next 3 days, if I remember, I am going to tweet something about Sylvia Plath that has NEVER EVER appeared ANYWHERE online.
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It took me eight full days of reading from 6:30 am to 9:30 pm, but I just finished
@Plathbiography
's Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.
Thank you, Heather, for writing this colossus.
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First visit in 9 years. Sadly the cowards are vandalizing the grave of Sylvia Plath Hughes again.
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Sylvia Plath shares her birthday with Dylan Thomas. This is her copy of Thomas' Collected Poems which was given to Elizabeth Sigmund (dedicatee of The Bell Jar) by Ted Hughes after Plath's death. Elizabeth annotated this with Plath's headstone inscription.
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#OTD
17 February 1963, Al Alvarez's short obituary for Sylvia Plath was printed in the Observer along with a photograph and four recent poems: "Edge", "The Fearful", "Kindness", and "Contusion".
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New Sylvia Plath Info Blog Post: Paul Alexander has organized The Sylvia Plath Symposium at Hunter College, New York City with
@plathpoem
@Plathbiography
and many more!
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Wishing everyone a great, safe, and peaceful holiday season and conclusion of 2023. Thank you all sincerely for your interactions on this plathform.
#sylviaplath
Look for a new Sylvia Plath Info Blog post on 1 January 2024.
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"There is no life higher than the grasstops
Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath "Wuthering Heights"
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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on 18 July 1961 at Mexborough Grammar School, Yorks., with two students. The day before, in London, Plath read "Tulips" at the Poetry at Mermaid festival.
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Absolutely love this photo of Sylvia Plath from circa spring 1953 on the cover of the 2 November 2018
@TheTLS
. It was first used on the paperback cover of Paul Alexander's Rough Magic way back in the 1990s.
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For Valentine's Day: Sylvia Plath and some of the ♥️ and💔in her life.
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