Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

Sylvia Plath ... one of Plath's preferred escapes. The letter is full of encouraging details, like the fact that Smith's "uniform" is casually simple: Bermuda shorts in spring and dungarees and ski ...