♥ Loving Sylvia Plath ♥

Aurelia Frances Schober Plath - Sylvia’s mother - died on Friday, March 17, 1994 (aged 87 years) at the North Hill Health Center in Needham, Norfolk County Massachusetts, USA, due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

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Nicholas Hughes in 2000 in his office on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Mar 13

The Nicholas Hughes-Week!

Another week, another theme… this week, I would like to dedicate to Nicholas Hughes, since the 3rd anniversary of his death is coming up on Friday.

Enjoy! :)

Mar 11

Source: “Lover of Unreason. Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’s Doomed Love” by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev

Mar 10

Source: “Lover of Unreason. Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’s Doomed Love” by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev

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Shura’s Birth

There was a snowstorm on [Wednesday] 3 March 1965, when Assia was admitted to the delivery room of Charing Cross Hospital [in London]. She was in labor for nine hours, which were quite bearable except for the last 45 minutes. “I emerged whole, ecstatic (in which condition I have been for ten days) and so did my daughter Shura (to rhyme with Jura) whose full name is Alexandra Tatiana Elise,” she joyfully informed Lucas Meyers. “Miraculously unwrinkled, with black hair, very long, and North Sea blue eyes— skin fair as sweet friar, very equable, tactful, grave, very touching. Above all very touching.” Influenced by Hughes’s fascination with astrology, she wrote down the hour of birth— 9:55 P.M.— and added that both moon and sun were in Pisces with Libra rising, though she had no idea what that meant.

[…] On the birth certificate, Edward James Hughes, an author, from Court Green, North Tawton, Devon, is registered as the father of the newborn. However, it was David Wevill who gave the child his surname: thus, she was both men’s daughter, and neither’s. The given names, chosen by Assia and reflecting her sense of drama, pass on the mother’s dreams of grandeur to the daughter: Alexandra, after the last tsarina, the German-born wife of Nicholas II, and Tatiana, after Pushkin’s romantic heroine. […] Long aware of her mother’s terminal cancer, Assia added her name [Elise] to the baby’s.

[…] Olwyn [Hughes] maintains that Ted was happy to take the child on, although Assia had told her that she did not know who the father was. […] Assia made a point of whispering that Ted was the father.

[…] Ted went ahead and ordered one [horoscope] for Shura. The astrologer foresaw delicate health in childhood, but predicted that Shura would grow to be handsome, pretty, fair-skinned, with abundant artistic talent, but not too much emotion, too much acting out, laziness and willingness to manipulate others for services rather than just getting on with the job herself. In many ways, it seemed as if Assia’s personality was imprinted in her daughter so deeply that they were inseparable. […] Hughes’s informed his friend of Shura’s horoscope, but did not comment on the ill omens in it, the astrologer having predicted: “There would also be severe loss in this person’s life— deaths, accidents, etc. in the family.”

— Excerpt from Chapter Fifteen, “Birth” - London autumn 1964 - winter 1966 in “Lover of Unreason. Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’s Doomed Love” by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev

The “Shura Wevill-Week”!

Another week, another theme… this week, I would like to dedicate to Ted Hughes’s daughter Shura Wevill.

Mar 03

Feb 26

The VERY BAD Sylvia Plath-Comic week!

A new week, a new topic… this week we had an !!ACCIDENTAL!! VERY BAD Sylvia Plath-Comic week!

A while ago, I have been searching for Sylvia Plath comics. There is so much Sylvia related stuff out there and I was sure, there must also be some comics.

However, the majority of Sylvia Plath comics I found, weren’t funny, cool or good at all!

Most of them were disrespectful, distasteful, offensive and above all - very, very bad! Mocking mental illness, suicide and a brilliant woman!

However, I still decided to collect them and I wanted to post them during “The VERY BAD Sylvia Plath-Comic week!” to show you how stupid and insensitive people can be when it comes to Sylvia Plath!

As I always do, I was planning to write a proper introduction post before I stard posting the comics. So that no one hits of the idea that I like or support these kind of things!!!

These of you who follow this blog for a longer time, know how strongly I feel about Sylvia Plath! How angry I get if someone posts disrespectful comments about her! How I despise the “head in the oven” jokes! How I judge the Sylvia Plath Halloween costumes! How I pick a fight with everyone posting shit about her!

Some people seem to forget that, despite the fact that she is a public figure and sometimes seems like an unreal character, she has been a HUMAN BEING. A very ill and tormented woman. A woman who couldn’t take her pain any longer and gave up the fight with depression!

The only reason why I posted these comics without an introduction is that I didn’t mean to post them this week AT ALL. I must have accidentaly queued them instead of saving them as drafts.

I have been really busy this week and didn’t come up with a topic for the blog and since I never queue my posts, I decided to skip this week and start a new theme week next week.

When I took a look at my tumblr on Wednesday, I realized that all the comics have been posted WITHOUT A COMMENT and I decided to wait till the end of the week (today) to write you an afterword instead of the introduction.

So, here you go! Hope this clarifies a few things and answers all your questions!!