The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume II
Edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Krull,
Faber and Faber, 1,025pp, £35/$35
Since her suicide in the winter of early 1963, Sylvia Plath has been squabbled over by feminists who claim her as a martyr to their cause, literary critics who see her as one of the most important poets of her time, and Plath’s own family, who wish only to forget the awful circumstances of her death at the age of 30 in London.
In the struggle to take possession of Plath, the requirements of ideology, scholarship and privacy seem irreconcilable.
