Screenwriters Take Poetic License With Plath

Posted on October 24, 2003

Screenwriters for Sylvia, a new film about the troubled life of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar) starring Gwyneth Paltrow, had to fill in a lot of the blanks in Sylvia's life. Sylvia's husband British poet laureate Ted Hughes destroyed Sylvia's second unpublished novel and the filmakers and screenwriters were denied access to most of Sylvia's poetry by Frieda Hughes, the poets' daughter.

Source: Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian Magazine