Medicine in Sylvia Plath's October Poems

Tracy Brain, Bath Spa University, Bath, England.

Tracy Brain is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in Bath, England. Her areas of interest include contemporary women's writing, the nineteenth century novel, children's literature, and fairy tales. Her recent publications include The Other Sylvia Plath (2001), "Sylvia Plath's Letters and Journals" in The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006), "Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically" in Modern Confessional Writing (2006), and "Unstable Manuscripts: The Indeterminacy of the Plath Canon" in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2007).