Letters Home
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(1 ratings)512 pages1992Harper PerennialISBN 9780060974916
CorrespondenceMothersAmerican AuthorsAmerican PoetsMothers and daughtersPlath, sylvia, 1932-1963Authors, correspondence
About this book
<p>Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780060974916
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932 and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge. There she met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. The couple settled permanently in England, and they had two children, a son and a daughter, before separating in 1962. She suffered from clinical depression for most of her adulthood, and lost her life to it in 1963.
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