Sylvia Plath's Tarot cards, a 24th birthday present from her husband, poet Ted Hughes, just went for £151,200 in an auction at Sotheby's. That's approximately £100,000 more than this lot, a Tarot de Marseille deck printed by playing card manufacturer B.P. Grimaud de Paris, was expected to fetch. Personal possessions of the late poet Sylvia Plath, including a rolling pin, wedding bands, recipe cards and love letters, sold at auction last week for a total of more than $1 million. Auction.
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Sylvia Plath's tarot deck just sold for $200,000. By Dan Sheehan July 21, 2021, 2:39pm Well, $206,886, to be more exact. That's $2,652 per card, in case you're wondering. Newswire. We have the results from the Sylvia Plath auction earlier this month, and they're a little surprising. Literary Hub reports that the star item from the July 9 auction ended up being the tarot deck that Ted Hughes gave to Plath for her birthday. It went for $206,886 — far more than the Plath-Hughes wedding bands; they sold for. SYLVIA PLATH'S PACK OF TAROT CARDS. Plath was introduced to the tarot and other aspects of occult lore by Ted Hughes. She wrote of her study of the tarot in one of her letters to him in October 1956 (lot 15) and this is likely to be the pack of tarot cards she was given by Hughes for her birthday on the 26th of that month. The auction ends on July 21. The tarot deck is expected to bring £4,000-6,000 ($5,500-8,300). Three years ago, Frieda Hughes sent a batch of her parents' books and literary memorabilia to auction at Bonhams, where Plath's own signed copy of The Bell Jar and her mint green Hermes typewriter were among the top lots. Auctions Book People Frieda Hughes
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Julia Gordon-Bramer. July 19, 2021. 3:17 pm. Sylvia Plath's tarot deck is currently up for auction with Sotheby's. "With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck / And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack…". These are famous words from Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy," one of her most famous ever. And Taroc is another name for the Tarot, as. Plath - whose relationship with Hughes broke down before her suicide in 1963 - has been reexamined recently with the academic Heather Clark's Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of the poet, Red. On Sylvia Plath, The Tarot And Bad College Writing October 31, 2015 BY PATRICIA GRISAFI The file name is embarrassing enough: "Sylvia Plath and My Fabulous Genius Paper." The essay itself is excited, earnest, overblown, quick on impressions - in essence, a typical college English paper written by an enthusiastic fan. Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had a following in the literary community. In the ensuing years her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers, who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair, violent emotion, and obsession with death.
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Journal of Creative Exploration May 2014
July 9, 1962. Aurelia Plath was visiting from the States, and mother and daughter had just returned from a shopping trip in Exeter. Earlier in the day, Plath had proudly told Aurelia, "I have everything in life I've ever wanted: a wonderful husband, two adorable children, a lovely home, and my writing." This bewitching twist on tarot and oracle decks highlights the lives of 30 beloved and respected female writers from literature past and present. The remaining 40 cards bear haunting illustrations of the witches' familiars—objects like an apple, a braid, a noose, the moon, mushrooms, or a spider.
In her journal entry for 9 February 1958, whilst still vowing to learn Tarot, she contemplated working herself into " mystic and clairvoyant trances to get to know Beacon Hill, Boston, & get its fabric into words ". Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956 seemed to move her fur-ther away from Christianity. Eager to please this "substitute for [her] father" (J 278), Plath quickly adopted her husband's interests, in-cluding the study of occult doctrine and practices, such as crystal-gazing and tarot card-reading. The couple also experimented with
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The Hanging Man Lyrics. By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet. The nights snapped out of sight like a lizard's eyelid : A world of bald. My examination of the first three poems in Ariel: the Restored Edition would seem to suggest that Plath was writing poems based on the Tarot cards and doing so in order to make an initiatory Tarot journey. If this was her plan, then, as with any religious or spiritual initiation, she would have needed to work step-by-step through each stage and this would have taken her through the cards.
