Linda wagner-martin sylvia plath biography videos

In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Linda Wagner-Martin examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Plath's life, as well as Missing: videos.

Linda Wagner-Martin wrote and published Sylvia Plath: A Biography in , and for many years it was the best Plath biography, enriched by details Aurelia Plath provided. Wagner-Martin first contacted Aurelia in , sending her a draft subtitled A Literary Biography , and then interviewed her. Wagner-Martin secretly tape-recorded an interview and admitted to doing it.

Aurelia was hurt and angry. Wagner-Martin's husband immediately returned the tape with apologies. Aurelia forgave Wagner-Martin and kept in touch until Wagner-Martin also contacted other people acquainted with Sylvia Plath. In the Wagner-Martin files at the Lilly Library I found information and observations new to me, most of them not in any published biography:.

Aurelia, age 13, in took on the care of her siblings, including her infant brother born September , while their mother was still weak from influenza and double pneumonia.

The Sylvia Plath who emerges from Wagner-Martin’s diligent interviews and conscientious perusal of letters and papers is a precociously talented young woman who Missing: videos.

This experience made Aurelia long to become a mother. March 9, Sylvia's classmate Donald Junkins, quoted as saying that Sylvia in Robert Lowell's poetry workshop looked "mousy," after reading the biography described Sylvia as "all silkwormy and opera-lonely and mono-blonde in that thin straggly way she had with her brain competing with everything in sight.

Eddie Cohen wrote Wagner-Martin Sept. Cohen wrote to Aurelia after Letters Home was published in , and from her first learned the details of Sylvia's ruined marriage and how Sylvia destroyed her second novel. Regarding Plath biographies, "It is strange that nowhere have I read about my own education," Aurelia wrote Wagner-Martin on September 1, But that was Aurelia's own fault: "In those days a girl who made high grades kept the fact to herself -- it was unpopular to be a 'green stocking'!

So the secret has been kept all these years that I [w]as Salutatorian of my high school class and Valedictorian of my college class.