Slick Chick
Elaine Showalter, 11 July 1991
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
by Jacqueline Rose.
Virago, 288 pp., £14.99, June 1991,1 85381 307 9 Show More
by Jacqueline Rose.
Virago, 288 pp., £14.99, June 1991,
“... Fame, the ambiguously titled (bitter to whom?) and extraordinarily hostile biography written by Anne Stevenson with the assistance of Olwyn Hughes, this criticism suggests that something terrible about Plath herself, a kind of plathology, is the source of lies, distortions, perversions and obsessions. At the other extreme has been a polemical feminist ... ”