ISBN10: 1898490317, ISBN13: 9781898490319, [publisher: Ferrington, Bookseller & Publisher., London,] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 44. Original publisher's blue cloth. A short memoir of Sylvia Plath by her friend,the writer Jillian Becker. An intimate account of her last days "She was lonely, almost friendless as well as husbandless. The flattering courtiers had departed with the king." Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia's final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes's infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide, and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendship between two very different women. ISBN:1898490317 Fine in fine dust jacket.
[Wickham Market, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

London Ferrington, Bookseller & Publisher 2002 First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 44. Original publisher's blue cloth. A short memoir of Sylvia Plath by her friend, the writer Jillian Becker. An intimate account of her last days "She was lonely, almost friendless as well as husbandless. The flattering courtiers had departed with the king." Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia's final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes's infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide, and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendship between two very different women. ISBN: 1898490317 Fine in fine dust jacket.