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 ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression.

The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...

The party was in full swing. As many as 100 guests, most of them students, crowded the second-floor hall of the Women’s Union at England’s University of Cambridge the night of February 25, 1956.

Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sitting at the kitchen table, Ruth Fainlight looks out of the window to the street below. “The most ...

Brabon is the Melbourne author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins. And while she's lived with chronic pain since her early ...