Sylvia Plath: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Biographies include Paul Alexander, Rough Magic (1991, reissued 2003); Jacqueline Rose, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991, reissued 2013); Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes (1994, reissued 2012); Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, 2nd ed. (2003); Carl Rollyson, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (2013); and Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted (2013). Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (2013), presents a biographical snapshot. Linda W. Wagner (Linda Wagner-Martin) (ed.), Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage (1988, reissued 1997); Jo Gill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006); Susan Bassnett, Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry, 2nd ed. (2005); and Luke Ferretter, Sylvia Plath’s Fiction: A Critical Study (2010), offer analyses and overviews of Plath’s writings.
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: ABC listen - Weekend Arts - The 50th anniversary of The Bell Jar and Sylvia Plath's suicide. | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography - Sylvia Plath. | Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Added more discussion of Plath's influence on confessional poetry and feminist literature. | May 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Weekend Arts - The 50th anniversary of The Bell Jar and Sylvia Plath's suicide. | Mar 19, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 07, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Criterion: An International Journal in English - Sylvia Plath: of Post-Colonial Time, Space and other. | Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Radio National - The Legacy of Sylvia Plath. | Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of English, Literature and Social Science - Mythology in Modern Literature: An Exploration of Myths and Legends in Sylvia Plath?s Poetry (PDF). | Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| Added a cross-reference. | Mar 06, 2025 | ||
| Added a cross-reference. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death? | Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Sylvia Plath. | Jul 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American National Biography - Biography of Sylvia Plath. | Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sylvia Plath and the depression continuum. | Aug 22, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Sylvia Plath. | Apr 19, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 12, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Library - Biography of Sylvia Plath. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Noted the publication of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom. | Jan 23, 2019 | ||
| Added a second collection of her letters. | Nov 12, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 29, 2018 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 26, 2018 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Oct 26, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Poetry Archive - Sylvia Plath. | May 14, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Sylvia Plath. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Illinois - Department of English - Modern American Poetry - Biography of Sylvia Plath. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poets.org - Sylvia Plath. | Feb 13, 2013 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 05, 2012 | ||
| Added mentions of the release of the biopic Sylvia and the 2009 staging of Plath's play Three Women. | Nov 03, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 12, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 30, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Oct 27, 1999 |