Rose is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991. In the book, Rose offers a postmodernist feminist interpretation of Plath's work, and criticises Plath's husband Ted Hughes and other editors of Plath's writing. Rose describes the hostility she experienced from Hughes and his sister (who acts as literary executor to Plath's estate) including threats received from Hughes about some of Rose's analysis of Plath's poem "The Rabbit Catcher". The Haunting of Sylvia Plath was critically acclaimed, and itself subject to a famous critique by Janet Malcolm in her book The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.[citation needed]
Rose's States of Fantasy (1996) was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title.[12]
Criticism of Israel
Rose is highly critical of Zionism, describing it as "[having] been traumatic for the Jews as well as the Palestinians".[13] In the same interview, Rose points to the internal critique of Zionism expressed by Martin Buber and Ahad Ha'am.
In The Question of Zion[15] Rose argued that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state". Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson described this as "moralizing" and disconnected from historical reality.[16]
She spent her early years in Hayes in west London.[4] Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose, and she is a cousin of the theatre director Braham Murray.[10] Her father, a doctor, arrived in the United Kingdom from a prisoner-of-war camp where he had suffered torture; he and her mother, who was prevented by her family from attending medical school, divorced when Rose was three. Rose grew up with her stepfather, who also had a surgical practice, and whose surname she took along with her sister.[4] Some fifty members of her mother's family, the Prevezers, had been murdered by the Nazis in the Chełmno extermination camp in central Poland.[4][2]
In the 1990s Rose was in a relationship with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, with whom she adopted a Chinese-born daughter, Mia, in 1995.[2][4] In 2012, her partner was the psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar.[2]
Notes
↑ According to an interview with Rose, at the School of Cultural and Community Studies.[4]
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