Literary Witches

Taisia Kitaiskaia

An illustrated celebration of women writers who have enchanted generations and transformed the world: Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Octavia Butler, Sappho, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, Toni Morrison, Emily Brontë, and more:

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

“No matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.”

19-year-old Sylvia Plath on the transcendent simplicity and reverence of nature:

Sylvia Plath: Drawings

Sylvia Plath

“It gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. I can close myself completely in the line, lose myself in it.”

Sylvia Plath’s unseen drawings, edited by her daughter and contextualized amidst excerpts from her private letters

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Elizabeth Winder

What a catalog of superficiality reveals about the complex inner worlds of young women.

The Bed Book

Sylvia Plath

“Most Beds are Beds for sleeping and resting, but the best Beds are much more interesting!”

Sylvia Plath’s vintage verses about unusual beds, originally written for her own children, illustrated by the great Quentin Blake in this rare British first edition:

The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath’s little-known and lovely vintage children’s book, a charming cautionary tale about the perils of self-consciousness, with wonderful illustrations.

Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Andrew Wilson

A journey into “what compelled Plath to peek over the edge and stare into the abyss of the human psyche.”