Moore, Honor (March 2009). "After Ariel: Celebrating the poetry of the women's movement". Boston Review. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017.

A Fulbright Fellowship brought Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes. The two married in 1956 and had a stormy relationship. In 1957, Plath spent time in Massachusetts to study with poet Robert Lowell and met fellow poet and student Ann Sexton. She also taught English at Smith College around that same time. Plath returned to England in 1959. The extent of their estrangement during this period is revealed in another letter in the collection, dated 21 October 1962, in which Plath claimed to Barnhouse that Hughes told her directly that he wished she was dead. Though Plath had a history of depression and self-harm, and had attempted to kill herself in 1953, she didn’t reveal the full extent of her struggles with mental health to Hughes until some time after their marriage. Plath Reads Plath– 1975, Released as a gramophone record by Credo Records and on Compact Disc by Harper Audio in 2000 The end was coition, physically. But I wasn’t having any of that. I was being pragmatic. I felt like being kissed, petted, made love to. I would take it as far as I wanted to. To hell with him. I am not a tease, nor a whore – he could go home unsatisfied, rape a stranger, I didn’t care.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments. Why did Virginia Woolf commit suicide? Or Sara Teasdale – or the other brilliant women – neurotic? Was their writing sublimation (oh horrible world) of deep, basic desires?” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Mavis Gallant wrote every night for ten years after work to get regular in the New Yorker, although she gave up everything.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Let’s face it, I am in danger of wanting my personal absolute to be a demigod of a man, and as there aren’t many around, I often unconsciously manufacture my own.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath– a marriage examined. From The Contemporary Review. Essay by Richard Whittington-Egan 2005 accessed July 9, 2010a b "Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes talk about their relationship". The Guardian. London. April 15, 2010. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014 . Retrieved July 9, 2010. Extract from the 1961 BBC interview with Plath and Hughes. Now held in the British Library Sound Archive. Taylor, Robert (1986). Saranac: America's Magic Mountain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37905-9. Sylvia Plath was an American novelist and poet. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her death for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Early Life

How did I ever live in those barren, desperate days of dating, experimenting, hearing mother warm me I was too critical, that I set my sights too high and would be an old maid. Well, perhaps I would have been if Ted hadn’t been born.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath All upcoming public events are going ahead as planned and you can find more information on our blog

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The Library’s buildings remain fully open but some services are limited, including access to collection items. We’re Badia, Janet; Phegley, Jennifer (2005). Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8928-3.