Books written by Sally Bayley

  • The Private Life of the Diary

    French was also for people who didn't listen. I went back to Switzerland to stay with relatives of the first family, the Grosjean family, which in French means Large John. Large John, I thought, must be a relative of Little John.

  • Home on the Horizon: America's Search for Space, from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan

    Her only rituals are related to flight ; a series of kneejerk responses to the loss of any form of domestic policy or governance . Elaine and her husband exist only for the breathing spaces in between blind panic . Paul and Elaine Weiss ...

  • Representing Sylvia Plath

    7 Nancy Walker, Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), p. 19. 8 Marsha Bryant, 'Ariel's Kitchen: Plath, Ladies' Home Journal, and the Domestic Surreal', ...

  • Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual

    Eye Rhymes presents exciting new material on the life and work of Sylvia Plath on the 75th anniversary of her birth.

  • No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family's Missing Men

    Inventive, literary and adventurous, this is a story of hard childhood and a testament to the way that great literature and its characters can guard an imagination against the bad.

  • Representing Sylvia Plath

    This book explores the many layers of her often unreliable and complex representations and the difficult relationship between the reader and her texts.