The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

by Carl Rollyson

Book Overview

In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149682122X
• ISBN13: 9781496821225
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"