Citation

Figes K. Women Cult. Rev. 1990; 1(1): 117-118.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/09574049008578028

PMID

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Abstract

PERHAPS the greatest tragedy of Sylvia Plath's short and troubled life is that she has not been allowed to rest in peace. Fierce argument surrounds her turbulent marriage to Ted Hughes. For many feminists she was the victim of male oppression fighting for the space to write when she was not looking after two small children. Some have even vandalised her gravestone by repeatedly removing the name Hughes. The awful loneliness of her suicide in 1963 when she was at the height of her creative powers and the mystery surrounding it have developed mythical proportions as people speculate about what was going through her mind. Her life has become larger than her art; it is the fierce, stark honesty of her poems which must and should outlive the myth. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Language: en