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How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

  • Written by Jason Miller, Professor of English, North Carolina State University
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetrySylvia Plath wrote a series of 14 intensely personal letters to her psychologist that were only recently uncovered.Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the...

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