Critical Quarterly, Vol 13, No 2, Summer 1971

Belonging to Ted Hughes' and Sylvia Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes, presumably inherited from her father: Critical Quarterly, Vol 13, No 2, Summer 1971. Pages 165-172 Sylvia Plath's 'Crossing the Water': Some Reflections by Ted Hughes. Note in Frieda Hughes' hand on scrap of paper laid in "Plath - 1971. Critical Quarterly Vol 13/No 2: Plath's 'crossing the water' discussed by Ted Hughes". A fine copy. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonhams, London (21 March, 2018) which she described in the catalogue as 'redolent of my parents' joint history... the books and the pamphlets and the poems signed by my mother and father, represented important aspects of their literary lives and were evidence of their powerful partnership.' Most of these items contain the Bonhams sale bookmark and can be accompanied by a signed guarantee of the item's authenticity from modernfirsteditions.