While some of the Plath cult has been horribly insensitive and invasive, it's certainly true that the Hughes family have profited from it themselves. E(.g. Olwen Hughes, Ted's sister and manager of the Estate, sold high-priced limited editions of some otherwise unavailable poems.) It's also the family who decided to release intimate stuff like Plath's journals and letters in order to provide information on her life, and T.H. as executor who authorized The Bell Jar (originally pseudonymous) to appear under Plath's name and later be made into a film.
Is the Plath-Hughes marriage all that cinematic, anyway? Since the film-makers have been forbidden to quote from the poems at any length, we might be left with nothing but looking after babies, picking daffodils and stencilling furniture :)
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Date: 2004-02-04 12:38 am (UTC)Is the Plath-Hughes marriage all that cinematic, anyway? Since the film-makers have been forbidden to quote from the poems at any length, we might be left with nothing but looking after babies, picking daffodils and stencilling furniture :)