Her Husband
Beschreibung:
Her Husband is a triumph of the biographer's art and an up-close look at a couple who saw each other as the means to becoming who they wanted to be: writers and mythic representations of a whole generation.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Becoming Her Husband
Chapter One: Meeting (1956)
Ted Huge
Flashy American
The "Dairy I"
Chapter Two: Romance (1956)
The White Goddess: Song
Plath's Idyll
"To Ariadne, Deserted by Theseus"
Chapter Three: His Family (1956)
Leo
William Henry Hughes (1894-1981)
Edith Farrar Hughes (1898-1969)
Gerald Hughes (1920- )
Chapter Four: Struggling (1956-1963)brRabbit Stew
Silent Strangers
Complicated Animals
Earth Mother
The Luxury of Solitude
Chapter Five: Prospering (1957-1963)
Money
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Literary London
Homemaking
Literary Lion
Fertility
Chapter Six: Separating (1962- )
The Rabbit Catcher
He Said, She Said
Chapter Seven: Parting (1962-1963)
Plath Turns Thirty: Ariel
"Daddy"
London on Her Own
Doubletake
Chapter Eight: Husbandry (1963-1998)
Hughes's Tribe
Hughes's Ariel
The Wodwo and the Crow
Stewardship
Chapter Nine: Curing Himself (1967-1998)
Knot of Obsessions
Sinking into the Folk-Tale
From Relic Husband to Her Husband
Chapter Ten: The Magical Dead (1984-1998)
Poet of England
The Drama of Completion
Coda: Naked (1998- )
Sources and Notes
Bibliography
Index