Book description
'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to
pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge,
pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth
of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so
graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back
in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the
Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and
studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a
Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She
published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960),
and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains
her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
