by Yehuda Koren
Moses, Kate. Wintering, a novel of Sylvia Plath. New York, St Martin’s, 2003.
Moulin, Joanny ed., Alternative Horizons. Routledge, 2004, includes: Bere, Carol. ‘Complicated with Old Ghosts: The Assia Poems’; Robert, Neil J. ‘Hughes and the Female Addressee’.
Murphy, Richard. The Kick, A Memoir. London, Granta Books, 2002.
Myers, Lucas. Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared. USA, Tennessee, Proctor’s Hall Press, 2001.
Newman, Charles ed., The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium. USA, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1970.
Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. New York, Atheneum 1976.
Orr, Peter ed., The Poet Speaks. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.
Rayfield, Tom. Fifty in 40. Rayfield Writers, 1996.
Rose, Jacqueline. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. London, Virago Press, 1991.
Sagar, Keith. The Laughter of Foxes. Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million, New York, Henry Holt, 2000.
Skea, Ann. Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest. Australia, University of New England Press, 1994.
Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Penguin, 1990.
Tennant, Emma. Burnt Diaries. Canongate Books, 1999.
— Sylvia and Ted, a novel. New York, Henry Holt, 2001.
Trevor, William. Excursions in the Real World. Hutchinson, 1993.
Uroff, Margaret Dickie. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. USA, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1979.
Van Dyne, Susan R. Revising Life: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems. USA, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Wagner, Erica. Ariel’s Gift. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. New York, Simon & Schuster 1987.
— Plath: a Literary Life, 2nd ed. revised and extended, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
— Down Among the Women. Penguin Books, 1973.
— Mantrapped. London, Harper Perennial, 2005.
Williams, Mark. A Cry of Pain, Penguin Books, 1997.
Articles
Barber, Jill. ‘Ted Hughes, My Secret Lover’. The Mail on Sunday, 13 and 20 May 2001.
Barraclough, Brian and Harris, E Clare. ‘Suicide preceded by murder: the epidemiology of homicide-suicide in England and Wales, 1988–1992’. Psychological medicine, 2002, 32, 577–584. Cambridge University Press.
Becker, Gerry. ‘Plath–Hughes; One of Us Had to Die’. Unpublished memoir, courtesy of Kathleen Becker.
Bowland, Eavan. ‘Ted Hughes Recollections’. PN Review. Manchester, 25:5 May 1999.
Brown, Mick. ‘Poetic Justice’. Interview with Frieda Hughes, Telegraph Magazine, 16 June 2001.
Churchwell, Sarah. ‘Ted Hughes and the Corpus of Sylvia Plath’. Criticism 40, no. 1, winter 1998, pp. 99–132.
Cornwell, John. ‘Bard of Prey’. Sunday Times, 3 October 1999.
Fainlight, Ruth. ‘Sylvia and Jane’. Times Literary Supplement, 12 December 2003.
Feay, Suzi. ‘The Ghost Winter’. Interview with Emma Tennant, Independent on Sunday, 20 May 2001.
Heinz, Drue. ‘Ted Hughes: The Art of Poetry, LXXI’. Interview with Ted Hughes, Paris Review 134, spring 1995.
Helle, Anita. ‘Family Matters: An Afterword on the Biography of Sylvia Plath’, Northwest Review, 26, no. 2, 1988.
Hobsbaum, Philip. ‘Ted Hughes at Cambridge’. The Dark Horse: The Scottish-American Poetry Magazine, 8 Autumn 1999.
— ‘In Conversation with Nicolas Tredell’. PN Review 119, January–February 1998.
Horder, John. ‘Desk Poet’. Guardian, 23 March, 1965.
Hughes, Frieda. ‘A Matter of Life and Death’. The Times Magazine, 30 September 2000.
— ‘Daddy, I hardly read you’. The Times, 4 October 2003.
Hughes, Ted. ‘Poet, Pike and a Pitiful Grouse’. Guardian, 9 January 1999.
Excerpts from Hughes’s interview with Thomas Pero, ‘So Quickly It’s Over’, in Wild Steelhead & Salmon magazine, USA, 5, no. 2, winter 1999.
Marzuk, P M, Tardiff K, Hirsch C S. ‘The epidemiology of murder-suicide’, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992; 267:3179–3183.
Mercy, James et al. ‘Is suicide contagious?’ American Journal of Epidemiology, 15 July 2001, vol. 154, no. 2:120–127.
Meyer, Beate: ‘The Mixed Marriage: a Guarantee of Survival, or a Reflection of German Society during the Nazi Regime’, in Bankier, David. Probing the Depth of German Antisemitism, German Society and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933–1941, New York, Berghahn Books, 2000.
Morpurgo, Horatio. ‘The Table Talk of Ted Hughes’. Arete, issue 6, autumn 2001.
Nikunen, Minna, ‘Media, Myth and Mother-child Murder-suicide’. Nikk Magasin, The Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, no.3, 2005. Finland, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Tampere.
Porter, Peter. ‘Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: a Bystander’s Recollections’. Australian Book Review, August 2001.
— ‘Some People: Slogans for the Sixties’. Guardian, 20 December 1988.
Resnick, Philip J. ‘Child murder by parents: a psychiatric review of filicide’. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1969; 126:325–334.
Robson, Jeremy. ‘Copy for Mr Feinstein’. London Magazine, June–July 1971.
Sewards, Lisa. ‘In the Name of My Father’. Interview with Frieda Hughes, Daily Mail, 3 November 2001.
Sigmund, Elizabeth. ‘Sylvia 1962, a Memoir’. The New Review, vol. 3, no. 26, May 1976.
Sonnenberg, Ben. ‘Ted’s Spell’. Raritan 21, no. 4, spring 2002.
Stanton, A and Simpson, J. ‘Maternal Filicide’. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2000, 10, 136–147.
Thomas, Trevor. ‘Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters’. Unpublished memoir, 1989, courtesy of Clarissa Roche.
Tyrer, Nicola. ‘Secret Life of Sylvia Plath’. Daily Mail, 5 February 2004.
Walker, Iain, ‘Poetic Justice? The Trials of Ted Hughes’, Australia, The Advertiser, 7 May 1987.
Zoritte-Megged, Eda. ‘Intersections’. Mosnayim, no. 9, September/October 1984 (in Hebrew).
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the following sources from which we have drawn and quoted: our interviews with Celia Chaikin, Assia Wevill’s sister, telephone interview, January 1999, email exchange, January 1999–May 2002, interviews in Canada, May–June 2002, and subsequent emails, letters and telephone calls, July 2002–April 2006; Arnold Chaikin, Assia’s brother-in-law, interviews in Canada, May–June 2002: the Chaikins kindly provided us with photographs from their family album, as well as with correspondence and documents pertaining to Assia and the Gutmann family; John H Steele, Assia’s first husband, letter exchange and excerpts from his diary, July 2002–January 2004; Richard (Dick) Lipsey, her second husband, interview in Canada, June 2002, and email exchange, July 2002–June 2003; his sister, Thirell (Lipsey) Weiss, email exchange, August–December 2002; David Wevill, Assia’s third husband, interview in Texas, November 2003, and email exchange, September 2002–December 2005; Ted Hughes, interview in London on 8 October 1996; Olwyn Hughes, letter exchange, August 2002–June 2003; about Assia’s life in the 1940s, we interviewed Leila Andreas and Wedad Andreas, in Israel, November 2001; Hannah Weinberg-Shalitt, interview in Israel, January 1999; Mira Hamermesh, interview in London, October 2001; Keith and Pam Gems, interview in London, December 2003, and letter exchange, August 2002–February 2004, as well as correspondence and photos from the 1940s and 1950s that they have kindly provided us with; John Bosher, telephone interview and email exchange, July–August 2002, as well as excerpts from his diary; Esther Birney, telephone interview, December 2001, and a letter from January 2002; about Assia’s life in England and Burma in the 1950s, we interviewed Liliana Archibald, in London, March 2003; Alton Becker, email exchange, March–July 2002; Marilyn Corry, email exchange, September 2002; Martin Graham, interview in London, October 2001; P
hilip Hobsbaum, email exchange, October 2001–May 2003; Edward Lucie-Smith, interview in London, October 2001, and email exchange, December 2001– August 2003; Patricia Mendelson, interview in London, September 2001, as well as correspondence and photos of Assia and Shura; Don Michel, email, September 2002; Ian Montagnes, email exchange, September–October 2002; Roger Philips, email exchange, November 2001; Peter Porter, interview in London, September 2001, and letters, October–December 2001; Jo (Reed) Price, email exchange, September–October 2002; Kenneth Reed, a letter from November 2002; about Assia’s life in England and Ireland in the 1960s: Al Alvarez, interview in London, September 2001; Anne (Adams) Alvarez, interview in London, October 2001; Martin Baker, interview in Oxfordshire, October 2001, and email exchange, November 2001–January 2004, as well as footage of Assia’s film and photographs that he took of her and Shura; Kathleen Becker, interview in London, September 2001, as well as a memoir written by her late husband, Gerry Becker; Tom Boyd, telephone interview, September 2004; Anna (Owen) Bramble, interview in London, October 2001; Sue Byrne, email exchange, November 2001; John Chambers, interview in London, September 2001; Douglas Chowns, email exchange, November 2001–June 2003; Barrie Cooke, telephone interviews in November 2002 and in March 2004; Janos Csokits, interview in Budapest, March 2006, and letter exchange, December 2003–September 2005; Jane Donaldson, email and letter exchange, November 2003–February 2004, as well as photographs of Assia; Dan Ellerington, telephone interview, January 2002; Ruth Fainlight, email exchange, January–February 2004; Jonny Gathorne-Hardy, interview in London, October 2001; Michael Hamburger, letters June–July 2002; Brenda Hedden, interviews in England, September–October 2001; Guy Jenkin, interview in London, October 2001; Ann Henning Jocelyn, interview in Ireland, March 2005; Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden, interview in Ireland, March 2005; Angela Landels, interview in London, October 2001; Richard Larschan, interview in Massachusetts, USA, June 2004, and email exchange, September 2001–December 2005; Fay Maschler, interview in London, October 2001; Julia Matcham, interview in London, September 2001, and letters and email exchange, September 2001–December 2002; Horatio Morpurgo, email exchange, April 2003; Lucas Myers, email exchange, November 2001–December 2003; Hugh Musgrave, interview in Ireland, March 2005; Keith Ravenscroft, email exchange, October 2001; Clarissa Roche, interview in England, September 2001, as well as a copy of the unpublished memoir written by the late Trevor Thomas; Teresa Reilly, telephone interview, April 2005; Philip Resnick, email exchange, April 2004; Chris Roos, interview in London, October 2001; David Ross, interview in London, March 2003; Ann Semple, telephone interview, January 2002; Elizabeth (Compton) Sigmund, interview in England, August 2001, and subsequent email exchange, September–December 2001, as well as Assia’s tapestry letter to Sylvia Plath, and Hughes’s letters to the Comptons; Ben Sonnenberg, email exchange, August 2002; Royston Taylor, email exchange, November 2001–February 2002; John Wainwright, interview in London, October 2001; Daniel Weissbort, interview in London, May 2002, and letter exchange, April 2002–September 2005; Fay Weldon, interview in London, September 2001; Chris Wilkins, email exchange, October 2001.
We have drawn and quoted from the works of: Amichai, Yehuda. Poems. New York, Harper & Row, 1968; Selected Poems. Penguin, 1971; Selected Poems. Introduction, Ted Hughes, Faber and Faber, 2000. The quotations from Amichai’s poems and papers in his archive at Yale are reproduced by kind permission of Hannah Amichai; Hughes, Ted. Collected Poems. Keegan, Paul ed., Faber and Faber, 2003; Plath, Sylvia. Ariel, The Restored Text. Faber and Faber, 2005; Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962. Kukil, Karen V. ed., Faber and Faber, 2000; Letters Home: Correspondence. Faber and Faber, 1999; Tarn, Nathaniel, ‘A Requiem for Two Daughters of Israel’, in Selected Poems 1950–2000. USA, Wesleyan University Press, 2000. Reproduced by kind permission of Nathanial Tarn and his publishers; Wevill, David. Birth of a Shark. Toronto, Macmillan, 1964; Casual Ties. Prose Sketches. Curbstone Press, 1986; A Christ of the Ice-Floes. Macmillan, 1966; Departures, Selected Poems. Shearsman Books, 2003; Firebreaks. Macmillan, 1971; Solo with Grazing Deer. Toronto, Exile Editions, 2001. All quotes from David Wevill’s poetry and prose are reproduced by his kind permission; Alexander, Paul ed., Ariel Ascending: Writing about Sylvia Plath. New York, Harper & Row, 1985, and Rough Magic, 2nd ed. New York, Da Capo, 1999; Alvarez, A. The Savage God: A Study in Suicide. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, and Where Did It All Go Right? Richard Cohen Books, 1999, and ‘Sylvia Plath: A Memoir’, in Alexander, Paul ed., Ariel Ascending; Bennett, Bruce. Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and his Poetry. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1991; Blumenthal, Susan J ed., Suicide Over the Life Cycle. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 1990; Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1976, and Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work ed., New York, Dodd, Mead, 1977; Cameron, Elspeth. Earle Birney – a Life. New York, Viking, 1994; della Casa, Giovanni, Galateo, or, The Book of Manners. Penguin, 1958; Efron, John. Medicine and the German Jews. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001; Farberow, Norman L and Shneidman Edwin ed., The Cry for Help, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965; Feinstein, Elaine. Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001; Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper World Perspective Series, 1960; Gammage, Nick ed., The Epic Poise, A Celebration of Ted Hughes. Faber and Faber, 1999; Gelber, Yoav. A New Homeland – the Immigration from Central Europe and its Absorption in Eretz Israel 1933–1948. Jerusalem, Leo Baeck Institute and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi 1990 (in Hebrew); Goodwin, Isobel. May You Live to Be 120! The Story of Tabeetha School, Jaffa, 1863–1983. Saint Andrew Press, 2000; The Hagana Book. Maarachot, 1955–1972 (in Hebrew); Hamermesh, Mira, The River of Angry Dogs – a Memoir. Pluto Press, 2004; Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Sutton Publishing, 2003; Kater, Michael, Doctors Under Hitler. USA, University of North Carolina Press, 1989; Kroll, Judith. Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. New York, Harper Colophon, 1976; Lucie-Smith, Edward. The Burnt Child: An Autobiography. Victor Gollancz, 1975, and A Group Anthology ed., Oxford University Press, 1963; Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath – A Marriage. New York, Viking, 2003; Morgan, H G. Death Wishes? John Wiley, 1979; Morgan, Robin. Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New. New York, W W Norton, 1990; Bere, Carol. ‘Complicated with Old Ghosts: The Assia Poems’, in Moulin, Joanny ed., Alternative Horizons. Routledge, 2004; Murphy, Richard. The Kick, A Memoir. Granta Books, 2002 and ‘Lullaby’, which is reproduced by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland, from Collected Poems, 2000; Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities. Secker & Warburg, 1953; Myers, Lucas. Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared. Tennessee, Proctor’s Hall Press, 2001; Newman, Charles ed., The Art of Sylvia Plath – A Symposium. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1970; Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. New York, Atheneum 1976; Orr, Peter ed., The Poet Speaks. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966; Rayfield, Tom. Fifty in 40. Rayfield Writers, 1966; Sagar, Keith. The Laughter of Foxes. Liverpool University Press, 2000; Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million. New York, Henry Holt, 2000; Skea, Ann. Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest. Australia, University of New England Press, 1994; Stevenson, Anne, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Penguin, 1990; Tennant, Emma. Burnt Diaries. Canongate Books, 1999; Trevor, William. Excursions in the Real World. Hutchinson, 1993. Permission granted by PFD Agency on behalf of William Trevor; Wagner, Erica. Ariel’s Gift. Faber and Faber, 2000; Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. 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We have drawn and quoted from the following articles; Barber, Jill. ‘Ted Hughes, My Secret Lover’. The Mail on Sunday, 13 and 20 May 2001; Barraclough, Brian and Harris, E Clare. ‘Suicide preceded by murder: the epidemiology of homicide-suicide in England and Wales, 1988–1992’. Psychological Medicine, 2002, 32, 577–584, Cambridge Univ
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