#the letters of sylvia plath

[metamorphesque]

unfolding into another spring

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[derangedrhythms]

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Dr. Beuscher written in February 1963, featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[lovingsylvia]

"If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour."

--Sylvia Plath, from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, 18 July 1951, The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

Photo: Sylvia Plath (age 21) in Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts on 24 July 1954

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Image source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/

[anelaxoxo]

Just finished reading kafka's 'letter to my father' and can't stop thinking how crazy publishing an author's journals/letters after their death actually is. I mean I'll still be reading cuz i'm nosy but I doubt kafka wanted the world to read about his daddy issues 😭

[persephonediary]

Cheers to March and Spring 💗💐💗💐💗💐💗💐💗💐💗

[fawnaura]

I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—and a great deal of love.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

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"I'm glad the rain is coming down hard. It's the way I feel inside."

--The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956, from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, written 26 November 1950

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[metamorphesque]

in March I'll be rested, caught up and human.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956

[derangedrhythms]

[…] we continually fascinate each other.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 ⁠—  Aurelia Schober Plath, 29th November 1956

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

[lunakatsukisan]

:0 amazing quote right here kind of like something you'll find in a letter or a book

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[lovingsylvia]

"My fingers are so full of amazing news to type that I hardly know where to begin. First of all, you better stop what you are doing and be very quiet and sit down with a tall glass of cool lager and be read to keep a huge and miraculous secret: your sister, as of 1:30 p.m. June 16th in London at the 250 year old church of St. George the Martyr is now a married woman! Mrs. Sylvia Hughes, Mrs. Ted Hughes, Mrs. Edward James Hughes, Mrs. E. J. Hughes (wife of the internationally known poet and genius): take your pick. It is really true."

--from The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, a letter to her brother Warren Plath, written on Monday, 18 June 1956

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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on 25 February 1956 at party in Cambridge, England. They married only four months later on 16 June 1956 at St George the Martyr, Holborn, London in honor of Bloomsday with Plath‘s mother Aurelia being the only wedding guest. They have been married for six years and four months until Plath died by suicide on 11 February 1963.

Even though they have been separated for four months since October 1962, they never got a divorce. Maybe today would have been their 68th anniversary, if they were alive and stayed together. However, despite Ted Hughes later claiming that they were about to reconcile, they were, more likely, heading for a divorce.

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Picture: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed in front of Hughes parents' home The Beacon in Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire in September 1956.

Photo source: sothebys.com

[tamsoj]

Sylvia Plath, "Love Letter"