Houghton Mifflin Company Collection of papers on Bitter Fame 1954-1991

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Houghton Mifflin Company Collection of papers on Bitter Fame 1954-1991

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Papers collected by the Houghton Mifflin Company for their 1989 publication of Anne Stevenson's biography . Includes correspondence and legal papers concerning the project, as well as research notes, drafts, corrections, press clippings, and photocopies of illustrations. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath

9 boxes; (3.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Mortimer Rare Book Room

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SNAC Resource ID: 6321731

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Hughes, Olwyn

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Davison, Peter Hobley

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Stevenson, Anne

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x00014b Anne Stevenson, poet, was born in Cambridge, England, on 3 January 1933. She attended the University High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1947-1950; Michigan University, Ann Arbor (B.A., 1954; M.A., 1962); and the Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1971. She worked as a school teacher during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and thereafte...

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Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963

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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965. From t...

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998

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Assia Wevill was born Assia Gutman on May 15, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, Lisa, was a German Protestant, and her father, Lonya, was a Russian Jew. In the late 1930s, the family fled to Tel Aviv to escape the Nazis. Wevill first married John Steel in London in 1946, and from there emigrated to Canada, sending visas to her family in Israel. In Vancouver, she met her second husband, Richard Lipsey, whom she divorced in 1960 to marry her third husband, David Wevill. The Wevills met Ted Hug...