Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath: Insights from the Archives at Smith College

Karen Kukil, Associate Curator of Special Collections at the Young Library, Smith College, gives an illustrated talk about the library’s extensive Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath archive material. Kukil discusses the rewards, frustrations and revelations inherent in archival research with Regina Marler, author of Bloomsbury Pie and editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell. Karen Kukil is editor of the Journals of Sylvia Plath and of Woolf in the Real World and co-editor of the Letters of Sylvia Plath.  Regina Marler writes for the New York Review of Books.