Sylvia Plath | Collection of 39 family photographs annotated by her, 1960-62

Sylvia Plath

Collection of 39 family photographs,

chiefly of her daughter Frieda from new-born ("almost new") to toddler, many also with Sylvia Plath and two with Ted Hughes, the majority taken in the interior of their flat in Chalcot Square, London, others on Primrose Hill and at Court Green, Devon, including six colour photographs (all taken at Court Green), all but two with captions by Sylvia Plath on the reverse, chiefly c.65 x 65mm (some up to 85 x 90mm), 1960-62

SYLVIA PLATH'S MEMENTOES OF MOTHERHOOD.

"...O love, how did you get here?

O embryo

Remembering, even in sleep,

Your crossed position.

The blood blooms clean

In you, ruby.

The pain

You wake to is not yours..." (from 'Nick and the Candlestick')