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 A file holding letters sent to Anne Stevenson in connection to her work on the Sylvia Plath biography, Bitter Fame. Correspondents include Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes, Richard Murphy, Mark Le Fanu, Jillian Becker, Peter Davison and other representatives from the publisher, Houghton Mifflin; and Helga Huws. The following are also present in the file: a pile of notes by Olwyn Hughes and Stevenson, photocopies of letters sent by Stevenson to various individuals; and...

Scope and Contents A file holding letters sent to and by Anne Stevenson, connected to her biography on Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame, which include reactions to the publication following its release. Correspondents include: Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes, Peter Davison at Houghton Mifflin, Robert McMullen, Jude Bourguignon at Penguin Books, Dale J. Sprague, Bob Dykeman, C.J. Hardy, Jullian Becker, Ruth Scott, Madeline Strong Diehl, Marion Bright, Paul Roche, Joe Lobenthal, Richard Murphy, Ruth...

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 ...

Scope and Contents Typescript and word-processed drafts of reviews by Anne Stevenson on the works of other poets and authors, which were published in or submitted to various outlets. Some drafts feature annotations and corrections in pencil or ink, and they are occasionally accompanied by other material.This sub-series is composed of 82 items/files, held in four boxes. The reviews are listed below in order of either the title of the reviewed publication, the title of the first publication when...

Scope and Contents A 13-page typescript draft of a short memoir written by Irish poet, Richard Murphy, relating to Sylvia Plath's and Ted Hughes' visit to his home. This memoir was written for inclusion in Anne Stevenson's biography on Plath, Bitter Fame. In the final version of the book, Murphy's contribution is found in the third appendix, under the title, A Memoir of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on a Visit to the West of Ireland in 1962. Also present is a...

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Two files holding correspondence, along with poetry typescripts and related items, connected to Anne Stevenson's editorship of the 1991 publication, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 2. The majority of the correspondence are addressed to Stevenson, and most have been sent from those featured in the anthology.