Tracy Brain is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Her book, The Other Sylvia Plath, was published in 2001. She is the author of Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically (2006), Sylvia Plath's Letters and Journals (2006) and Unstable Manuscripts: The Indeterminacy of the Plath Canon (2007). Her essay, 'Ted Hughes and Feminism', will appear in The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes (2011).