In Letters Home , Plath wrote to her mother on October 12, 1962, that "I am a famous here--mentioned this week in The Listener as one of the half-dozen women who will last--including Marianne Moore and the Brontës!." Did you know that the article to which she refers was by fellow poet Elizabeth Jennings. It was in Jennings review of Mrs. Browning by Alethea Hatyer? The article appeared in the September 13, 1962 issue of The Listener , on page 400. The paragraph in which Plath's name is mentioned reads, "Mrs Browning labours under the burden which all women poets have to carry - the fact of being a woman. Memorable English or American poets can be numbered on less than two hands; one thinks of Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Edith Sitwell's early work, Anne Ridler, Kathkeen Raine, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and scarcely anyone else..." It must have tickled Plath, particularly, to be mentioned in the same breath as Mari...

The Archives and Special Collections at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Mass., holds the Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize Records, 1923 - . Plath competed in this poetry competition whilst an undergraduate student at Smith College. Plath (far right in the picture) was co-winner in 1955 along with William Key Whitman (third from right). I believe Lynne Lawner, who was a correspondent of Plath's from 1955 until Plath's death, is seated next to Marianne Moore. An article about the Glascock Prize, and some recollections from the 1955 contest, can be found here . The abstract for the collection reads, "Letters reflecting her association with the Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Contest, Mount Holyoke College. Includes her critique of poems by Sylvia Plath, co-winner of the contest in 1955." The collection contains 13 items. The Archives and Special Collections web site is online here .