Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

Nicholas Hughes had a nightmare start in life. His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting her own inner demons that must have made it especially difficult for her to be there in her mind ...

Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes, Consulting Editor, and Frances McCullough, Editor. New York: Dial Press, 1982. Sylvia Plath. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962.