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Archives and Hives

Three books which tell of Sylvia Plath’s spring
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October 2025, no. 480

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg

Faber, $75 hb, 848 pp

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Sylvia Plath: A very short introduction by Heather Clark

Oxford University Press, £9.99 pb, 144 pp

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Loving Sylvia Plath: A reclamation by Emily Van Duyne

W.W. Norton, US$27.99 hb, 320 pp

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Archives and Hives

Three books which tell of Sylvia Plath’s spring
by
October 2025, no. 480
Sylvia Plath, Smith College, c.1951 (Penrodas Collection/Alamy)
Sylvia Plath, Smith College, c.1951 (Penrodas Collection/Alamy)

For seven years after her 1963 burial, Sylvia Plath lay in an unmarked grave near St Thomas the Apostle Church in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire. The gravestone, when it came, bore her birth and married names, Sylvia Plath Hughes, the years of her birth and death, and a line from Wu Cheng-en’s sixteenth-century novel Monkey King:Journey to the West: ‘Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus can be planted.’

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg

Faber, $75 hb, 848 pp

Buy this book
Sylvia Plath: A very short introduction

Sylvia Plath: A very short introduction

by Heather Clark

Oxford University Press, £9.99 pb, 144 pp

Buy this book
Loving Sylvia Plath: A reclamation

Loving Sylvia Plath: A reclamation

by Emily Van Duyne

W.W. Norton, US$27.99 hb, 320 pp

Buy this book

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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