This is a reasoned meditation on the art of biography, a work of criticism and literary detection and an examination of the means by which biographers justify their ends. The author takes as her example the various biographers of the poet Sylvia Plath and their conflicts with the Plath estate. This is not a book about the life of Sylvia Plath, but her afterlife: how her reputation was forged from the poems she wrote just before her suicide; how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters: her art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath's work; and how five biographers, variously thwarted in their attempts to give what they felt to be a true account of the life have turned much of the literary world against Ted and Olwyn Hughes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780330335782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91271549
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Author
Janet Malcolm
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1994
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
380g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Janet Malcolm
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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