Scope and Contents Material connected to Anne Stevenson's biography on poet, Sylvia Plath, which was originally published in 1989. The biography received a second edition in 1998, released in the wake of Ted Hughes' final collection of poetry, Birthday Letters, which the new edition's preface addressed.This series is composed primarily of various drafts written by Stevenson. There are also drafts of memoirs produced by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin and Richard Murphy, which were...

Scope and Contents Two files holding letters sent to Anne Stevenson in connection to her work on the Sylvia Plath biography, Bitter Fame. The first file holds items dating between January and June 1987, while the contents of the second file date from July to December that year. Correspondents include representatives from Penguin Books, Olwyn Hughes, Peter Davison at the publisher, Houghton Mifflin; Lucas Myers, Richard Murphy, J. Melvin Woody, Clarissa Roche, and Trevor Thomas. The...

Scope and Contents Letters, printouts of emails, cards, and postcards sent to Anne Stevenson from friends, family, business associates, literary peers, companies, charities, educational institutions, and people who admired her work. Some letters are accompanied by copies of poems written by the correspondents. Also present are contracts, financial statements, sales invoices and other items that Stevenson received through the post.This series is composed of 37 boxes and 783 identified correspondents,...

Scope and Contents Two folders holding a draft of Anne Stevenson's biography on Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame. This version includes the preface, all 12 chapters, the epilogue, and the memoirs written by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin and Richard Murphy found in the appendices. There are no notes on sources section or bibliography. Annotations and corrections are present in pencil and ink.This draft is significantly bigger than the other three versions present in the ...

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A file holding photocopies/fax copies of a partial draft of Lucas Myers' contribution to Anne Stevenson's biography on Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame. In the final version of the book, Myers' memoir is found in the first appendix, and it is titled, Ah, Youth...: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath at Cambridge and After. Only copies of pages seven to 13 are present.