Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath
For 30 years, Bel Mooney has collected portraits of her favourite writers
As a student (Eng Lang and Lit at University College London), I loved frontispieces – those steel engravings of Defoe, Fielding and Swift in curly wigs. I wondered if they really looked like that: Donne in his ruff and Pope in his velvet hat. How do we know? And what did the faces reveal? ...
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