Two
new books on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were featured in this year's Mortimer
Lecture, held in the Neilson Browsing Room, November 13,
7:30 p.m.
Kate
Moses's novel, Wintering (Anchor Books), focuses on the last months
of Sylvia Plath's life in which she created the poems of Ariel.
Diane
Middlebrook's biography, Her Husband (Viking), provides a portrait
of Ted Hughes and discusses how his life and art were shaped by his marriage
to Sylvia Plath.
For more information, read the press
release posted on Smith College News Releases.
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, December 1959
Photograph by Marcia Brown Stern '53
Both
Kate Moses and Diane Middlebrook researched their books using the Sylvia
Plath Collection at Smith College.
Find
Publications in the Libraries' Catalog
Search
by subject to find books about Sylvia Plath's life and work:
Plath,
Sylvia and about Ted Hughes: Hughes,
Ted, 1930-
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