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03417aam a2200433 i 4500 001 49F4EDE88E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 191220s2020 msu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019049567 020 $a 149682122X 020 $a 9781496821225 035 $a (OCoLC)1124977274 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ORX $d OCLCF $d KUA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3566.L27 $b Z8493 2020 082 00 $a 811/.54 $2 23 084 $a BIO007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Rollyson, Carl E. $q (Carl Edmund) $e author. 245 14 $a The last days of Sylvia Plath / $c Carl Rollyson. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2020] 300 $a xvi, 235 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Narrative -- A counterfactual history -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index. 520 $a "In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse at Smith College, a key figure in the poet's final days. Barnhouse was a therapist who may have been the only person to whom Plath believed she could reveal her whole self. Barnhouse went beyond the protocols of her profession, serving more as Plath's ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Ted Hughes and friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath's last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes's alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed, in Hughes's malign view, his wife's undoing, and how biographers, Hughes, and his cohort parsed the events that led to the poet's death, form the charged and contentious story this book has to tell"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Plath, Sylvia. 600 17 $a Plath, Sylvia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032930 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Poets, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067794 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rollyson, Carl, $t The last days of Sylvia Plath $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020. $z 9781496826879 $w (DLC) 2019049568 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=49F4EDE88E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search