Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

by Andrew Wilson

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On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter - now one of the most famous in all literary history - was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a 'big, dark, hunky boy'. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured Plath's life and work. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth.

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  • ISBN10 1476710317
  • ISBN13 9781476710310
  • Publish Date 5 February 2013 (first published 31 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Scribner Book Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English