What's New for Di Beddow
Autumn/Winter 2023
In the Lent Term of this year at the English Faculty’s Benson Gallery, my exhibition “ ‘Our Place’ the Cambridge of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath “ enjoyed a steady flow of visitors with many of the Cambridge great and good writing nice things in the Visitor’s Book. Thank you to Laura Moss, the librarian and her team for being so welcoming to a non-Cambridge University graduate. The exhibition space is normally held for graduates, post-graduates and alumni of the university, but Laura felt that what the exhibition had to offer was worth a risk with this Cambridge townee!Summer/Autumn 2022
In April 2022 I graduated at Queen Mary University London. Dr Diane Beddow had submitted the thesis entitled ‘The Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’. I am now preparing papers for the Ted Hughes Conference at Huddersfield in September and the inaugural Sylvia Plath Conference at Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall in October. In Huddersfield I will be presenting on Hughes as Teacher and in Hebden Bridge I am joining Heather Clark and Dave Haslam to speak on ‘Plath’s Places’.
Autumn/Winter 2021
Dr Beddow
I have successfully defended my thesis on ‘The Cambridge of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’. The thesis was supervised by Katie Fleming (primary) and Peter Howarth (second) of Queen Mary University London, and examined by Professor Neil Roberts (Sheffield) and Dr Nisha Ramayya (QMUL). My grateful thanks to all my friends, family and the academics and librarians who were so supportive. Particular thanks should go to my online writing group and peers who helped me to keep going through a global pandemic: Sophie, Abbie, Denise, Breeze, Julie, Cathie, Katie, Michael and Katy.
