By Paul Alexander 1/10/05 12:00am

Restored Ariel Mis-Introduced With Defense of Plath Nemesis

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement, by Sylvia Plath, with an introduction by Frieda Hughes. HarperCollins, 211 pages, $24.95.

On the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, in the alleyway behind 23 Fitzroy Road in snowbound London, Myra Norris, a Health Services nurse who was scheduled Read More

By Paul Alexander 4/06/98 12:00am

Ted Hughes Avoids the Subject In Birthday Letters

In the early morning hours of Feb. 11, 1963, as much of the serious reading public now knows, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at the age of 30 by gassing herself in the kitchen of her London flat. She had struggled with manic-depression since she was a teenager and had recently sunk into a life-threatening depression Read More