The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

The 23 journals detail her adult life: student days at Smith College, her time at Cambridge University where she met and later married the poet Ted Hughes, the two years spent living in New England and life in Devon, including the birth of their children, before the marriage broke down in 1962.

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. She began publishing poems and stories as a teenager and by the time she entered Smith College had won several poetry prizes. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge, England, and married British poet Ted Hughes in London in 1956. The young couple moved to the States, where Plath became an instructor at Smith College, and had two children. Later, they moved back to England, where Plath continued writing poetry and wrote The Bell Jar, which was first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in England in 1963. On February 11, 1963, Plath committed suicide. The Bell Jar was first published under her own name in the United States by Harper & Row in 1971, despite the protests of Plath's family. Plath's Collected Poems, published posthumously in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780571197040
ISBN 10	0571197043
Title	The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
Author	Sylvia Plath
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2000-04-03
Number of pages	742
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