Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people’s dreams. An office assistant in a hospital pursues…

In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her…

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath’s groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel…

With this new publication of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel; the author’s legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft.

Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar, is a semi-autobiographical work that explores the mental breakdown of its protagonist, Esther Greenwood. It addresses themes of identity, mental health, and societal pressures…

Janet Malcolm’s revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.

This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poets' botanical awareness of the vegetal agency…

A look at the life of Sylvia Plath and what drove her to suicide. The text shifts the focus away from biographical readings and encompasses the full range of Plath’s…