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I hope to add content to this page at some point this year.

In the meantime, here is some information about Letters Home.

Letters Home is one of the few Plath books to be published first in the United States, rather than in the United Kingdom. Harper & Row published the book on 3 December 1975; Faber followed on 20 April 1976. The letters are heavily edited; the original manuscript is part of the Sylvia Plath materials at the Lilly Library, Indiana University at Bloomington. The letters are selected; what I mean by this is the book is not a complete publication of letters to and from Plath, though many scholars are calling for such a publication.

Letters Home has been adapted into play by Rose Leiman Goldemburg (1980). Goldemburg's adaptation has also been dramatized by Films for the Humanities (1986).

A selection of reviews of Letters Home
Ackroyd, Peter. "Dear Mummy, I hate you." Spectator. April 14, 1976: 21.

Adams, Phoebe-Lou. Atlantic Monthly. February 1976: 111.

Alvarez, A. "Inside the Bell Jar." The Observer. April 18, 1976: 23.

Bere, Carol. Ariel 8. October 1977: 99-103.

Brans, Jo. "The Girl Who Wanted to Be God." Southwest Review. Summer 1976: 325-8.

Broe, Mary Lynn. Journal of Modern Literature. 1976: 787-9.

Butler, Christoper. "Home Journal." Essays in Criticism. January 1977: 77-83.

Byatt, A. S. "Mirror, mirror on the wall." New Statesman. April 23, 1976: 541-2.

Cosgrave, Mary Silva. Horn Book Magazine. April 1976: 185.

Crain, Jane Larkin. Saturday Review. November 15, 1975: 26.

Curtis, Cathy. "In her letters, she wanted to be a Cosmo girl." DailY Californian. February 6,
     1976: 15, 17.

Davydeen, Cyril. "Living and Dying." Dalhousie Review. Spring 1976: 166-7.

De Souza, Eunice. "Humanising the myth." Times of India. July 18, 1976: 10.

Dinnage, Rosemary. "A girl from Wellesley." Times Literary Supplement. April 23, 1976: 480.

Duffy, Martha. "Two Lives." Time. November 24, 1975: 101-2.

Eder, Doris. "Portrait of the artist as a young woman." Book Forum. Spring 1976: 242-54.

Erikson, Pamela, Dale. "Sylvia Plath." Unisa English Studies. September 1976: 95-7.

Glover, Jon. "Re-enter the Writer's Life." Stand. 1977: 58-9.

Harthill, Rosemary. "From Sivvy, with love." Times Educational Supplement. May 14, 1976: 20.

Haughton, Hugh. "In Her Mother's Kingdom." Times Higher Educational Supplement. July 16,
     1976: 15.

Howard, Maureen, "The Girl Who Tried to be Good." The New York Times Book Review.
     December 14, 1975: 1-2.

Jackson, Marni. "Portrait of Sylvia Plath a 'Normal' girl of the '50s." Toronto Star. December 27,
     1975: C7.

Jardin, Cassandra. "Look to the Ladies." Times Educational Supplement. April 28, 1978: 25.

Jefferson, Margo. "Who Was Sylvia?" Newsweek. December 22, 1975: 83.

Jong, Erica. "Letters Focus Exquisite Rage of Sylvia Plath." Los Angeles Times. November 23,
     1975: 1, 10.

Kenner, Hugh. "Sweet seventeen." National Review. April 30, 1976: 459-60.

Kinzie, Mary. "A new life and other Plath controversies." American Poetry Review. March-April
     1976: 5-8.

Kirsch, Robert. "Bell Jar vs. Candlelight of Hope." Los Angeles Times. May 17, 1977: 3.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "From Outside the Bell Jar." The New York Times. December 9,
     1975: 39.

Maloff, Saul. "The poet as cult goddess." Commonweal. June 4, 1976: 371-4.

McMurtry, Larry. "Letters and a Superb Autobiography." The Washington Post. November 24,
     1975: B-14.

Miller, Karl. "Sylvia Plath's Apotheosis." New York Review of Books. June 24, 1976: 3-8.

Mooney, Bel. "Extravagent Heart." The Guardian.April 22, 1976: 9.

Neville, Jim. "The Sylvia Plath industry." Sydney Morning Herald. April 3, 1976: 18.

New Yorker. December 22, 1975: 95-6.

Noble, Donald. "Letters of Sylvia Plath." Boston Sunday Herald. December 28, 1975: 62.

Observer. April 16, 1978: 27.

Padnos, Peg. "Sylvia Plath's letters serve as unpremeditated autobiography." Chicago Tribune.
     November 30, 1975: 3.

Perloff, Marjorie. Resources for American Literary Study. Spring 1977: 77-85.

Raban, Jonathan. "Through the Looking-Glass." Sunday Times. April 25, 1976: 41.

Ratcliffe, Michael. "Miss America and the Lorelei." The Times. April 19, 1976: 5.

Reed, Nancy. "Still those ellipses..." Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 1976: 23.

Rosenstein, Harriet. "Pure Gold Baby." New Review. May 1976: 53-7.

Rosenstein, Harriet. "To the most wonderful mummy a girl ever had." Ms. December 1975: 45-9.

Rubenstein, Roberta. "Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Inner Truths." Progressive. March 1976:
     41-2.

Thwaite, Anthony. "'I have never been so happy in my life': On Sylvia Plath" Encounter. June
     1976: 64-7.

Toomey, Philippa. "In Search of Sylvia." The Times. April 8, 1976: 11.

Trombley, Stephen. Critical Quarterly. Summer 1977: 93-6.

Tyler, Anne. "The voice hangs on, gay, tremulous." National Observer. January 10, 1976: 19.

Tyler, Ralph. "High-wire act." Bookletter. December 8, 1975: 1, 16.

Ward, David. "The Good Face." English. Autumn 1976: 247-52.

Wolff, Geoffrey. "Genius and gee whizzery." New Times. December 26, 1975: 64-5.

Zaidman, Laura M. Library Journal. October 15, 1975: 1916.