Her Husband
Hughes and Plath A Marriage

Whenever I try to say something, anything, about the Sylvia Plath-Ted Hughes situation, I sound like a marriage counselor - a very, very bad marriage counselor. Diane Middlebrook's efforts here are certainly better than anything I could come up with in way of making sense of it all. But nothing, rea......more

Reading this book, a biography of the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is like watching two masterful painters working side by side, Gaugain and Van Gogh, or Renoir and Monet--though probably more like the former, considering the volatility of both partners. Diane Middlebrook was a marvelous......more

When I first began reading Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband, I was disappointed. "This is all the stuff I already know," I thought. "St. Botolph's...black marauder...pushy American girl...I've read this all before. Where's the new stuff?" Plath fans like myself, who've read every biography and scrutini......more