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Format
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Mixed Materials
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Archival Material
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Author
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 Plath, Sylvia.
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Title
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Sylvia Plath collection, 1940-1981.
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Variant Title
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Plath collection.
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Physical Descrip.
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ca. 12 linear ft.
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Usage Note
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Access is unrestricted, unless otherwise noted.
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Abstract
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The collection contains approximately 4,000 pages of Plath’s manuscripts and typescripts. This includes a group of 67 poems in successive draft that are part of the Ariel poems. Also drafts of early poems, some with notes by Alfred Young Fisher. There are typescripts of The bell jar. Also drafts of articles, broadcasts, reviews and short stories. There are her journals, drawings and correspondence. Correspondence includes letters to and/or from Al Alvarez, Dorothy Schober Benotti, Ruth Barnhouse, Ruth Fainlight, Ann Davidow Goodman Hayes, Elinor Friedman Klein, Philip Emerald McCurdy, Enid Epstein Mark, James Michie, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Hans-Joachim Neupert, Aurelia Schober Plath, Otto Emil Plath, Olive Higgins Prouty, G. Jon Rosenthal, Stevie Smith, Marcia Brown Stern, and other friends, publishers and editors. Also memorabilia from childhood, school and adult life. Included in the realia is her English elm writing board, furniture she painted and her typewriter.
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Biog./Hist. Note
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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965.
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Cum.Ind./Find. Aid
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A preliminary listing of the collection is available.
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Subject(s)
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Plath, Sylvia.
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Hughes, Ted, 1930-
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Hughes, Olwyn.
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Plath, Aurelia Schober.
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Plath, Otto Emil, 1885-1940.
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Davidow-Goodman, Ann.
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Klein, Elinor.
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McCurdy, Philip Emerald.
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Mark, Enid.
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Michie, James.
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Moss, Howard, 1922-
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Neupert, Hans-Joachim.
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Prouty, Olive Higgins, 1882-1974.
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Rosenthal, G. Jon.
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Stern, Marcia Brown.
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Subject(s)
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources.
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Other Author(s)
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Alvarez, A. (Alfred), 1929-
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Benotti, Dorothy Schober.
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Barnhouse, Ruth Tiffany, 1923-
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Fainlight, Ruth.
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Fisher, Alfred Young, 1902-
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Hughes, Ted, 1913-
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Hughes, Olwyn.
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Michie, James.
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
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Moss, Howard, 1922-
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Plath, Aurelia Schober.
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Plath, Otto Emil, 1885-1940.
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Prouty, Olive Higgins, 1882-1974.
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Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971.
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Owned By
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SC Special Collections
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