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Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
Mad Girl's Love Song Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted Author:Andrew Wilson From an award-winning author comes a groundbreaking biography of Sylvia Plath, focusing on her childhood, adolescence, and early years of writing, creating a new portrait of this iconic yet still mysterious literary legend.On February 25, 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encoun... more »ter?now one of the most famous in all literary history?was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a ?big, dark, hunky boy.? After Plath?s suicide in February 1963, Hughes became Plath?s literary executor, the guardian of her writings, and, in effect responsible for how she was perceived. But Hughes did not think much of Plath?s prose writing, and his determination to market her later poetry?poetry written after she had begun her relationship with him?as the crowning glory of her career. Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth century?s most popular and enduring female poet. Mad Girl?s Love Song reclaims Sylvia Plath from the tangle of emotions associated with her relationship with Ted Hughes and reveals the origins of her unsettled and unsettling voice, a voice that, fifty years after her death continues to haunt and enthrall.« less