by Kriss Perras Running Waters Sotheby's London, a high end International auction house, is set to offer from private hands a fabulous Joseph Conrad Collection. Considered a highly comprehensive single author sale, from the library of the late Stanley J. Seeger., a great collector of art, the offer is to include Sylvia Plath’s annotated copy of Lord Jim. This particulat copy was read aloud to her by Ted Hughes the year before her death.
For the uninitiated, when St. Botolph’s Review, a literary magazine, was launched, Hughes was one of the co-producers, he having contributed four poems to the edition. The magazine's launch party also launched the relationship between Hughes and the American poet Sylvia Plath. She is a highly acclaimed author and poet, best known for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetic masterpiece collectionsThe Colossus and Ariel. Hughes married Plath four months after the magazine's launch party. Many believe Hughes' domineering character led to Plath's depression and subsequent suicide. This belief was further embedded in the popular conscience of the Hughes legacy when his second wife did the same, taking with her the life of their four-year old daughter. Read More