Frieda Hughes
Auteur van Wooroloo
Over de Auteur
Werken van Frieda Hughes
Gerelateerde werken
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1960-04-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Wooroloo, Western Australia, Australia
London, England, UK
North Tawton, Devon, England, UK - Opleiding
- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1988 ∙ BA ∙ Hons)
Bedales School - Beroepen
- poet
painter - Relaties
- Hughes, Ted (father)
Plath, Sylvia (mother)
Lucacs, Laszlo (spouse) - Organisaties
- The Times (poetry columnist 2006-2008)
Leden
Besprekingen
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
Gerelateerde auteurs
Statistieken
- Werken
- 19
- Ook door
- 3
- Leden
- 317
- Populariteit
- #74,565
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 6
- ISBNs
- 53
- Talen
- 5
As well as George, and crows and ducks and owls (and dogs), I also learned a lot about the author, which I found equally interesting. Following Heather Clark's brick of a biography on Sylvia Plath, I picked up on facets of Frieda's family history like a magpie with shiny treasure; she refers to her mother's death as a 'desertion' and her peripatetic childhood with father Ted Hughes was just sad, for the children as well as the neglected pets. He should have given them to Sylvia's brother and his wife, and kept them away from his own bitter sister. Frieda recalls her father telling her that 'a woman should never be more successful than her man', which is telling! She also vents her frustration over being known as 'the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath' rather than as a poet and painter in her own right, but being a nepo baby cuts both ways - does she not wonder why she was hired as the 'poetry columnist for the Times'? Plath's poetry completely poleaxed me, whereas Frieda's samples are more like prose in short form.… (meer)