Her sensitivity about rejections from magazines, her struggle to establish a daily routine of reading and learning, and her ongoing attempts to ward off depression provide reminders of her drive and ambition, despite her feelings of inferiority with respect to her husband. Plath's writing is by turns raw, obsessive, brilliant and ironic. Plath's intense bitterness towards her mother emerges in full force, particularly in her notes on her psychoanalysis by Ruth Beuscher in Boston from 1957 to 1959. In the newly revealed writings, we see an even more complex, despairing psyche struggling to create in the face of powerful demons. But even the diary entries that have been available to the public demand re-reading in the context of fresh materials. Plath's journals were previously published in 1982 and heavily censored by her husband, poet Ted Hughes. Over 400 pages of never-before-published personal writings make this first comprehensive volume of Plath's journals and notes from 1950 to 1962 indispensable reading for both scholars and general readers interested in the poet.
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