Sylvia Plath's Letters

In these correspondences, we discover, after more than 55 years, new details about Plath’s life, who was brilliant in her writings that deal with melancholy and overwhelming emotion. What fed her literary talent was the reality of her suffering from depression throughout her life, her loss of her father as a child, and her conflicting feelings towards her mother, who also suffered from the same disease. The deeper side of these emotions is related to her relationship with her husband, the poet Ted Howes, and her reactions and feelings towards her discovery of his love affair with his mistress, Assia Wevill, the repercussions of his abandonment of her and their two children, her transformation from a state of denial to anger, then to surrender and sad defeat, and finally to the absolute despair that led to suicide. However, in all these stages, she continued to write the letters that she had been accustomed to since she was a child of ten, most of which resemble daily reports to her mother, Aurelia Plath, and she stops at the last letter when she was thirty to her psychiatrist a few days ago.