13 March 2013

Sylvia Plath's "Ghostly Archives" in one week!

Mortimer Rare Book Room,
© Gail Crowther, 2011*
In 7 days - one week - Gail Crowther and I will give our much anticipated (ha ha) talk on Sylvia Plath and archives in "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past" at Plymouth University. Can you stand it? Are you going to be there? Thank you in advance if you are! Can you not make it? No worries, read it in Plath Profiles 6 to be published this summer. In a practice run through the paper last weekend via Skype, we discovered that it was more than 75 minutes so had to cut out entire sections!

Whether or not you can make it, why not take the next few days to catch-up, familiarize, or re-familiarize yourself with the series of papers, published between 2009 and 2012.

These Ghostly Archives (2009)

These Ghostly Archives, Redux (2010)

These Ghostly Archives 3 (2011)

These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England (2012)

In "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past" we have something for everyone... previously unknown (or possibly never before cited) letters from Plath and Ted Hughes, never before seen photographs of the couple. And to boot, in the presentation we can quote from letters found and show images of these materials that we are unable to in our published paper.

We look forward to reading this paper for you and to meeting some new people. Ted Hughes scholars are (even) welcome!

Remember, the reading will be on 20 March 2013 in the Rolle Building, Plymouth University, Room 605, at 6 pm.

*Image above may not have anything to do with talk and it used for illustrative purposes only. Though I am sure we mention Smith College's Sylvia Plath Collection & the Mortimer Rare Book Room at some point... How could we not?

9 comments:

Julia Gordon-Bramer said...

I am hoping that perhaps a visitor to your presentation (hint! hint!) might take a photo of some of the unpublished/unpublishable stuff, and perhaps share, just so we could get a peek. Even if there is distance and a lack of resolution, it would sure be wonderful!

Peter K Steinberg said...

It is possible someone might do this but I would encourage people not to as it is a violation of copyright, no matter how bad the resolution is. It could also be distracting to the presenters.

pks

Anonymous said...

It's so sad and frustrating to not to be there!! I dont know what i'd giiiive.
@Julia, im having same hopes!

Raging Alessandra

Anonymous said...

Oh well...i keep repeating to myself...summer, at least, is not that far anymore :-P

Patiently waiting,
Alessandra

Rehan said...

I have been planning for days to re-read some of the earlier 'Ghostly Archives' articles. I shall do so now.

Peter K Steinberg said...

Rehan, I hope that you re-enjoy them. Will you be at the talk?

Alessandra, thank you for comments too and hope that it'll all be worth the wait!

pks

Anonymous said...

No doubt it will ;-)

Alessandra

Carl Rollyson said...

On March 20, I will be on my way to Madison Wisconsin to speak to Smith alumni about Sylvia Plath and so I won't be with you and Gail, Peter. I know I will be missing something special.

Rehan said...

Unfortunately not but I do look forward to reading it greatly.

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