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at the Examiner (writing from the Virginia Beach area) recently wrote on The Bell Jar. This seems as good a time as any to point out that Harper Perennial is reissuing The Bell Jar with yet another cover . This is only listed on sites like Amazon and Borders that I could find, and not yet on Harper's website. .

This decade, The Bell Jar has been reissued in 2003, 2005, and 2006.

In , I posted about the collection of () held at the at the University of Liverpool. The typescript for "The Rabbit Catcher" is particularly interesting as written adjacent to the first line - in Plath's hand - is the world Chevreau.

Recently I learned that this is likely not referring to . Rather, it is referring to a person, Cecile Chevreau. I wonder if she kept young goats?

Cecile Chevreau, along

This August, director Robert Shaw's version of Sylvia Plath's "Three Women" will be on stage at the .

What you need to know:

Where: Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LR, Scotland
Phone: 0131 623 3030
Website:
When: Thu 6th Aug - Mon 31st Aug
Cast: Neve McIntosh, Louisa Clein, Lara Lemon

Thanks to Jo Gill for bringing this to our attention. She and others discussed this on the , on 30 July. Those in the UK may be able

One: If you are in the Northampton, Mass. area this summer and fall, you might want to stop by the William Alan Neilson Library to see their exhibit on Yaddo, "", curated by the amazing . The exhibit opens in mid–August and continues through October.

Two: If you are in St. Petersburg, Florida, you can see Paul Alexander's biased play on stage at a theatre called The Studio@620. No longer starring Angelica Torn, this Edge stars

Plath Profiles 2 is just around the corner, but in the meantime, Plath is receiving attention in other scholarly journals.

Scott Knickerbocker recently published "'Bodied Forth in Words': Sylvia Plath's Ecopoetics". This paper is in 36:3, Summer 2009, pages 1-27.

Here is Knickerbocker's abstract:

"Plath demonstrates a combined interest in the texture of the natural world and the texture of language, which in her poems enacts and does not merely represent that world. Her unfortuna

Plath Profiles 2 is just around the corner, but in the meantime, Plath is receiving attention in other scholarly journals.

Scott Knickerbocker recently published "'Bodied Forth in Words': Sylvia Plath's Ecopoetics". This paper is in 36:3, Summer 2009, pages 1-27.

Here is Knickerbocker's abstract:

"Plath demonstrates a combined interest in the texture of the natural world and the texture of language, which in her poems enacts and does not merely represent that world. Her unfortun

The John Rylands University Library at the University of Manchester holds the . Within this collection are some Sylvia Plath related materials. The Critical Quarterly was an important publisher for Sylvia Plath and she both placed a number of poems with them, and edited their 1961 supplement (No. 2), American Poetry Now.

The reference code for the collection is GB 133 CQA. .

Plath related materials can be

The Bell Jar, often considered depressing by those compelled to see Plath's own end and that of the novel as one and the same, contains in its very first chapter, an indication that everything would be alright for Esther Greenwood. At her internship at Ladies Day magazine, she and the other girls were given presents, which they considered "as good as free advertising." (4) These presents - a reminder of a stressful and dark time - were tucked away for a while. "But later, when I was alright agai

My only vice is that I can't get enough Plath.

In the 14 July 2009, Sotheby's London auction of English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations, there were several Plath items that both sold and failed to sell. The biggest money maker was a first edition of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus (Heinemann, 1960) for £17,500. The copy - on her birthday - to her high school English teacher, Wilbury Crockett. The lot included a Christmas card from 1960 with a not

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, like almost every other book by (or about) Sylvia Plath, has an interesting publishing history. It first appeared in 1977 in England, published by Faber . It was re-issued in paperback with additional material from the Sylvia Plath Materials held at Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1979*. On January 2, 1979, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams first appeared in the US, published by Harper & Row.

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