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a collector of words || may contain dark/sensitive themes

In the queue: Excerpts from...

  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath [Links 1 2]
  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Vol. I [1 2] Vol. II [1 2]
  • The Bell Jar [1 2] The Colossus [1 2 3] Ariel [1 2 3]
  • The Collected Poems [1 2] Letters of Ted Hughes [1 2]
  • The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill [1 2]
  • Anne Sexton's Letters [1 2] The Savage God [1 2]
  • George: A Magpie Memoir [1 2] Birthday Letters [1 2]
  • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams [1 2]
  • Alternative Values [1 2] A Lover of Unreason [1 2]
  • A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf

THIS BLOG MAY CONTAIN DARK/SENSITIVE THEMES

Some positive quotes: Hope 🌻 Happiness 🌻 Love 🌻 Nature 🌻 Food Sylvia Plath: ...in love 🌻 ...being funny/sarcastic/glad 🌻 on...fashion 🌻 ...writing

A Sylvia Plath Project. This is an ongoing personal endeavour, collecting poetry fragments, letter excerpts, and other writings by, for, and about Sylvia. Updates for corrections & additional information will be made at intervals. Everything will be reorganised (when the queue runs out) on: plathproject —L. V.

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, "Cambridge Notes", from Notebooks (dated 20 February 1956)

Hostility grows, too. That dangerous, deadly venom which comes from a sick heart. Sick mind, too.

Assia Wevill, an excerpt from her journals, 3 days before her death (dated 20 March 1969); [On March 23, she gassed herself and her 4-year-old daughter with Ted Hughes]

I pretend to be alive

Sylvia Plath

  • aged 7, in a letter to her father (dated Monday, 19 February 1940)
  • aged 10, in a letter to her mother (dated Wednesday, 21 July 1943)
  • aged 21, in a letter to Philip E. McCurdy (dated Wednesday, 3 March 1954)
  • aged 21, in a letter to Gordon Lameyer (dated Saturday, 3 July 1954)
  • aged 23, in a letter to her mother (dated Saturday, 21 April 1956)
  • aged 23, in a letter to Ted Hughes (dated Saturday, 6 October 1956)
  • aged 25, in a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty (dated Wednesday, 25 June 1958)
  • aged 27, in a letter to her mother & brother (dated Thursday, 11 February 1960)
  • aged 30, in a letter to Fr. Michael Carey, (dated Wednesday, 21 November 1962)
  • aged 30, in her last letter to Dr. Beuscher (dated Monday, 4 February 1963)

Sylvia Plath, aged 30, in a letter to her mother, 6 months after discovering her husband's infidelity, and their subsequent separation (dated Wednesday, 16 January 1963)

[Ted Hughes (aged 32) - her husband, who was having an affair with Assia Wevill (aged 35), a married woman who rented their London flat at Chalcot Square; Sylvia moved with their children (a 2-year-old daughter & an 11-month-old son) from Court Green in Devon, to 23 Fitzroy Road in London, at a rented flat, formerly the residence of W. B. Yeats]

I guess I just need somebody to cheer me up by saying I've done all right so far.

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