I am mortified to somehow just be seeing this, Ann! What an extraordinary piece of writing, one I'm honored to have played a small part in. Also, I am riveted by these weird wedding portraits and always have been, and undyingly fascinated with The Silent Woman, in all its forms. I spent a lot of time in Malcolm's papers at Emory, and Yale. I would love to speak more about it with you, sometime. Cheers!
I was saving these two posts until I had time to read them properly and found them fascinating reading. The photographs are certainly very unflattering and Sylvia, in particular, looks very ill at ease. I have still to read "Red Comet" and the upcoming work sounds compelling reading too.
Thank you Deborah, it's striking how both of them look so awkward, as if being forced to pose at gunpoint... it seems that Sylvia was trying hard to please her mother by having the photographs done, but she definitely wasn't comfortable with it. Shame no photos have emerged of the Bloomsday wedding! Yes, I'm looking forward to Emily's book very much.
These two posts were so interesting. Do you know where Hughes taught? (I taught at Parkside for a couple of years.)
What a fascinating essay, Ann, thank you. We don’t live too far from Plath’s final resting place, and my brother was there just yesterday.
Ah! the coming train wreck^^
I am mortified to somehow just be seeing this, Ann! What an extraordinary piece of writing, one I'm honored to have played a small part in. Also, I am riveted by these weird wedding portraits and always have been, and undyingly fascinated with The Silent Woman, in all its forms. I spent a lot of time in Malcolm's papers at Emory, and Yale. I would love to speak more about it with you, sometime. Cheers!
This is fascinating! Looking forward to reading more on the topic - I’ve just ordered “Red Comet” !
Thanks Amy - I enjoyed Red Comet very much - it's one of those biographies that are as engrossing as a novel, a bit like Claire Tomalin's.
I was saving these two posts until I had time to read them properly and found them fascinating reading. The photographs are certainly very unflattering and Sylvia, in particular, looks very ill at ease. I have still to read "Red Comet" and the upcoming work sounds compelling reading too.
Thank you Deborah, it's striking how both of them look so awkward, as if being forced to pose at gunpoint... it seems that Sylvia was trying hard to please her mother by having the photographs done, but she definitely wasn't comfortable with it. Shame no photos have emerged of the Bloomsday wedding! Yes, I'm looking forward to Emily's book very much.