#ramsey and muspratt

[lovingsylvia]

“And I am married to a poet. We came together in that church of the chimney sweeps with nothing but love & hope & our own selves: Ted in his old black corduroy jacket & me in mother’s gift of a pink knit dress. Pink rose & black tie. An empty church in watery yellow-gray light of rainy London. Outside, the crowd of thick-ankled tweed-coated mothers & pale, jabbering children waiting for the bus to take them on a church outing to the Zoo.

And here I am: Mrs. Hughes. And wife of a published poet.”

—from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Cambridge Diary, Monday afternoon: February 25 1957

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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on 25 February 1956 at party in Cambridge, England. They married only four months later on 16 June 1956 at St George the Martyr, Holborn, Camden, London in honor of Bloomsday with Plath‘s mother Aurelia being the only wedding guest. They have been married for six years and four months until Plath died by  suicide on 11 February 1963.

Even though they have been separated for five months since September 1962, they never got a divorce. Maybe today would have been their 67th anniversary, if they were alive and stayed together.

Picture: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by by Lettice Ramsey at Ramsey & Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956.

This picture is one of 10 Plath and Hughes had taken a few moths later in November 1956 as their official wedding photos. They are wearing their actual  wedding attire and Plath wore a “pink knitted suit dress”.

They both ended up hating the photographs.

If you want to find out more about their wedding and the story of these wedding pictures, I highly recommend you to read Ann Kennedy Smith‘s blog post at https://akennedysmith.com/

Photo source: http://thiswomanisdangerous.blogspot.com/

#sylvia plath #ted hughes #cambridge #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #1965 #anniversary #james joyce #happy anniversary #Bloomsday #st george the martyr #london #holborn #Camden #aurelia plath #sylviaplath #ulysses #ramsey and muspratt #peter lofts #peter lofts photography #lettice ramsey

[abwwia]

Helen Muspratt (1907-2001)

Helen Muspratt  13 May 1907 – 29 July 2001 was a British photographer. Born in Madras, India. She studied photography at Regent Street Polytechnic.via Wikipedia

Helen Margaret Muspratt 13 May 1907 – 29 July 2001was a British photographer. Born in Madras, India. She studied photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. Muspratt opened a photography studio in Swanage, Dorset in 1929. In 1932, she met Lettice Ramsey, and together they opened the Ramsey & Muspratt studio in Cambridge. via Wikipedia Helen discussing her work for the BBC Television series “Women…

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#british #british photographer #Helen Muspratt #photo #photographer #Triple Solarised #women pioneers

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Ramsey & Muspratt :: Teresa ('Tess') (née Mayor), Baroness Rothschild. Solarised gelatin silver print, 1933 / src: NPG

#ramsey & muspratt #portrait #solarization #1930's #teresa rothschild #ramsey and muspratt

[my-kind-of-poetry]

Angelica Garnett and Virginia Woolf, by Ramsey & Muspratt, 1932.

[jasmineandviolet]

Angelica Garnett and Virginia Woolf, by Ramsey & Muspratt, 1932.

#virginia woolf #angelica garnett #woolf #woolfian #writer #female writer #reading woman #reading girl #reading #book #books #literature #female literature #woman literature #photo #photograph #photography #b&w #b&w photo #art #mrs dalloway #to the lighthouse #the waves #20th centur #20th century literature

[thirdrowcentre]

Diana Athill at Oxford, just before the second world war. Photograph: Ramsey and Muspratt. Taken from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/24/diana-athill-writer-and-editor-dies-aged-101

What a remarkable, wonderful human being. 

[vintagebooksdesign]

A Spy Named Orphan - Roland Phillips

There’s nothing like being handed official government documents from the National Archives to drive a cover concept. Our endpapers document the last known movements of one of Britains most well-kept secrets. Donald Maclean, a former British Diplomat and head of the American Dept in the Foreign Office, was one of the Cambridge Five - a spy ring acting for the Soviet Union. ‘Orphan’ tells the story of his astonishing double life – from austere childhood to Cambridge Graduate to his eventual defection in 1951.

A star diplomat with a tendancy for wild binges, Maclean was the perfect spy,  leaking huge amounts of top-secret data to the Russians and heightening the tensions of the Cold war.

The front cover is from a portrait by Lettice Ramsey and Helen Muspratt who photographed many of Cambridge’s leading pre-war intellects. Thanks to Peter Lofts who now owns and runs the Ramsey and Muspratt archive.

#A Spy Named Orphan #Roland Philipps #The Bodley Head #penguin random house #vintage books #Donald Maclean #Kim Philby #Guy Burgess #Anthony Blunt #John Cairncross #Cambridge Five #Spy #Spycatcher #Soviet INtelligence #Russian Spy #Venona Project #orphan black #art direction #screenprinting #graphic design

[kat4daire12]

Angelica Garnett and Virginia Woolf by Ramsey & Muspratt, 1932. 

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Ramsey & Muspratt . Portrait of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Garnett . 1932 

[lovingsylvia]

“And I am married to a poet. We came together in that church of the chimney sweeps with nothing but love & hope & our own selves: Ted in his old black corduroy jacket & me in mother’s gift of a pink knit dress. Pink rose & black tie. An empty church in watery yellow-gray light of rainy London. Outside, the crowd of thick-ankled tweed-coated mothers & pale, jabbering children waiting for the bus to take them on a church outing to the Zoo.

And here I am: Mrs. Hughes. And wife of a published poet.”

—from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Cambridge Diary, Monday afternoon: February 25 1957

***

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on 25 February 1956 at party in Cambridge, England. They married only four months later on 16 June 1956 at St George the Martyr, Holborn, Camden, London in honor of Bloomsday with Plath‘s mother Aurelia being the only wedding guest. They have been married for six years and four months until Plath commited suicide on 11 February 1963.

Even though they have been separated for five months since September 1962, they never got a divorce. Maybe today would have been their 65th anniversary, if they were alive and stayed together.

Picture: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by by Lettice Ramsey at Ramsey & Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956.

This picture is one of 10 Plath and Hughes had taken a few moths later in November 1956 as their official wedding photos. They are wearing their actual  wedding attire and Plath wore a “pink knitted suit dress”.

They both ended up hating the photographs.

If you want to find out more on their wedding and the story of these wedding pictures, I highly recommend you to read Ann Kennedy Smith‘s blog post at https://akennedysmith.com/

Photo source: https://www.loftyimages.co.uk

#sylvia plath #ted hughes #cambridge #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #1956 #anniversary #james joyce #Bloomsday #st george the martyr #london #Camden #aurelia plath #sylviaplath #ulysses #ramsey and muspratt #peter lofts #peter lofts photography

[abwwia]

Helen Margaret Muspratt (13 May 1907 – 29 July 2001) was a British photographer.

Born 13 May 1907 Chennai (India)

Died 29 July 2001 (aged 94) Brighton

Helen Muspratt was one of the leading women photographers in Britain in her time. She is best known as the co-founder of the firm Ramsey & Muspratt, photographers to leading Oxbridge subjects. In 1929 she opened a studio in Swanage and it was during these early years that she experimented with innovative techniques including solarisation. Via NPG

Helen Muspratt, Triple Solarised Self Portrait, 1933 © Bodleian Libraries

Ramsey & Muspratt, Tess Mayor, later Lady Rothschild, 1933 © Bodleian Libraries

Eileen Agar, surrealist painter, solarised portrait 1935. This is one of Helen Muspratt's most famous images.

Face: Shape and Angle Helen Muspratt Photographer by Jessica Sutcliffe

#Helen Muspratt #photographer #photography herstory #art by women #palianshow #art #Youtube

[lovingsylvia]

“And I am married to a poet. We came together in that church of the chimney sweeps with nothing but love & hope & our own selves: Ted in his old black corduroy jacket & me in mother’s gift of a pink knit dress. Pink rose & black tie. An empty church in watery yellow-gray light of rainy London. Outside, the crowd of thick-ankled tweed-coated mothers & pale, jabbering children waiting for the bus to take them on a church outing to the Zoo.

And here I am: Mrs. Hughes. And wife of a published poet.”

—from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Cambridge Diary, Monday afternoon: February 25 1957

***

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on 25 February 1956 at party in Cambridge, England. They married only four months later on 16 June 1956 at St George the Martyr, Holborn, Camden, London in honor of Bloomsday with Plath‘s mother Aurelia being the only wedding guest. They have been married for six years and four months until Plath commited suicide on 11 February 1963.

Even though they have been separated for five months since September 1962, they never got a divorce. Today would have been their 64th anniversary, if they were alive and stayed together.

Picture: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by by Lettice Ramsey at Ramsey & Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956.

This picture is one of 10 Plath and Hughes had taken a few moths later in November 1956 as their official wedding photos. They are wearing their actual wedding attire and Plath wore a “pink knitted suit dress”.

They both ended up hating the photographs.

If you want to find out more on their wedding and the story of these wedding pictures, I highly recommend you to read Ann Kennedy Smith‘s blog post at https://akennedysmith.com/

#sylvia plath #ted hughes #cambridge #1956 #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #anniversary #james joyce #Bloomsday #st george the martyr #london #camden #aurelia plath #sylviaplath #ulysses #ramsey and muspratt #peter lofts #peter lofts photography

[lovingsylvia]

On Saturday, 25 February 1956, a pretty drunk 23-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party at the Women’s Union in Falcon Yard, Cambridge, UK where she was studying on a Fulbright Fellowship, organized to celebrate the issue of the student literary journal St. Botolph’s Review and almost instantly spotted a “big, dark, hunky boy.”

After a while, he approached her and introduced himself as Ted Hughes. As a response, Plath recited segments of the poems Hughes has published in the ‘St. Botolph’s Review’. Plath and Hughes immediately were attracted to each other and after they drank more brandy, Hughes suddenly kissed her “bang smash on the mouth” and ripped the red hair band from her head what made her earrings come off her ears which he kept as souvenirs. While Hughes continued to kiss her neck, Plath bit him “long and hard” on the cheek and blood poured down his face. Hughes carried her tooth marks for the next month on his face and they would marry only four moths later. Picture source: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by Ramsey and Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956. Bio source: Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted, 2013

#sylvia plath #ted hughes #cambridge #falcon yard #1956 #Andrew Wilson #mad girl's love song: sylvia plath and life before ted #sylviaplath #st botolp's review

[lovingsylvia]

Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by Ramsey and Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956

Via "These Ghostly Archives 5 : Reanimating the Past" by Gail Crowther and Peter K. Steinberg in Plath Profiles Volume 6 (2013) & loftyimages.co.uk

#Sylvia Plath #Ted Hughes #ramsey and muspratt #1956 #peter lofts #plath profiles #Peter K Steinberg #Gail Crowther #cambridge