![]() Images of the letters, with passages clearly legible, were posted online as rumors about their contents spread, Smith College, Plath’s alma mater and home to a collection of her papers, filed a lawsuit. In 2017, they were put up for sale by an American book dealer. ![]() Stymied by the Plath estate, Rosenstein never published the book, and the letters, unknown to the public, remained in her files. In the nineteen-seventies, fourteen letters, which cover in detail Plath’s estrangement from her husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, were passed from Beuscher to Harriet Rosenstein, a feminist scholar who was working on a biography of Plath. ![]() ![]() What has happened to these documents in the intervening years is a case study in Plath’s legacy. Between February 18, 1960, and February 4, 1963, a week before Sylvia Plath committed suicide, at the age of thirty, she sent a series of candid letters to her close friend and former psychiatrist, Ruth Beuscher. ![]()
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