Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author.
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932 and educated at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge. There she met the poet Ted Hughs, whom she married in 1956. The couple settled permanently in England, and they had two children, a son and a daughter, before separating in 1962. She suffered from clinical depression for most of her adulthood, and lost her life to it in 1963.
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Fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author), American literature, Children's fiction, Drama, short story, American poetry, Plath, sylvia, 1932-1963, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, short stories, American drama, Classic Literature, Satanism, Young men, freedom, meaning of love, selfhood, Mothers and daughters, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Brothers and sisters, FamiliesPlaces
Massachusetts, Mallard residence, Jefferson, England, Mississippi, Missouri, New England, Saint Louis, Salem Village, United States, Yoknapatawpha County, Araby, Araby bazaar, Boston, New York, North Richmond Street, Wall Street, Alabama, Milford meeting house, Owl Creek Bridge, Andover, Barbados, Calcutta, China, Eastern EuropePeople
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19th century, 1600s, Antebellum era, 20th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Carnival, 1692, 1861-65, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1912, 1950s, 1953, Civil War, December, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL4327652A
- ISNI: 0000000121214196
- IMDb: nm0686799
- Library of Congress Names: n79032880
- LibraryThing: plathsylvia
- MusicBrainz: 9b73926a-d249-4dfd-841b-db3a56be5d9f
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV035413
- VIAF: 14775269
- Wikidata: Q133054
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q133054
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- Victoria Lucas
- Lucas, Victoria [Plath, Sylvia]
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