“Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives”: Turkeyneck, Travellers and Miss LaTrobe
Pictured: Marilyn Monroe, before and after plastic surgery, mid-1950s The shallowness of plastic surgery, in Hollywood and otherwise, seems to have also bothered Plath, as we see in poems such as “Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives,” written June 7, 1956, with the assumption that one “hag” can be either restored with a face lift, […]
Proof Plath Knew Qabalah: The Painted Caravan
I thought I would do a series of book reviews on this blog on old books that Plath owned and read, as I’m becoming aware that few others have read them. I’m going to start with the one scholars know Ted Hughes bought Plath for her birthday in 1956, The Painted Caravan: a penetration into […]