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Sylvia Plath

Index Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 157 relations: Adirondack Correctional Facility, Al Alvarez, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Anna Journey, Anne Sexton, Aribert Reimann, Ariel (poem), Ariel (poetry collection), Arthur Waley, Assia Wevill, Astrology, Aurelia Plath, Bachelor of Arts, Barry Kyle, BBC, Benidorm, Bernard Bergonzi, Bhagavad Gita, Birthday Letters, Blackbird (journal), Blue plaque, Boston, Boston Evening Traveller, Boston University, British Library, British Library Sound Archive, Bumblebee, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Chalcot Square, Confessional poetry, Costa Book Awards, Court Green, Crossing the Water, Cyrilly Abels, Daddy (poem), David Wevill, Diabetes, Diane Middlebrook, Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Dylan Thomas, Electroconvulsive therapy, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Emily Brontë, English Heritage, Ennui (sonnet), Entomology, Erica Wagner, Fitzroy Road, Forward Prizes for Poetry, ... Expand index (107 more) »

  2. 1963 suicides
  3. 20th-century American diarists
  4. American child writers
  5. Burials in West Yorkshire
  6. Glascock Prize winners
  7. McLean Hospital patients
  8. Plath-Hughes family
  9. Suicides in Hampstead
  10. Ted Hughes
  11. Wellesley High School alumni
  12. Yaddo alumni

Adirondack Correctional Facility

The Adirondack Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison in Ray Brook, New York in the Adirondack Mountains between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid; it detains up to 566 people.

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Al Alvarez

Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.

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Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers is a nonprofit organization which manages the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a competition that recognizes talented young artists and writers from across the United States.

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Anna Journey

Anna Journey (born November 1980 in Arlington, Virginia) is an American poet and essayist who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

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Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are poets from Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners and suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Aribert Reimann

Aribert Reimann (4 March 1936 – 13 March 2024) was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas.

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Ariel (poem)

"Ariel" is a poem written by the American poet Sylvia Plath.

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Ariel (poetry collection)

Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published.

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Arthur Waley

Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.

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Assia Wevill

Assia Esther Wevill (Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German-Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill are suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning and ted Hughes.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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Aurelia Plath

Aurelia Frances Plath (née Schober; April 26, 1906 – March 11, 1994) was an American associate professor of medical secretarial skills at Boston University, the wife of Otto Plath, and the mother of author Sylvia Plath and Warren Plath. Sylvia Plath and Aurelia Plath are American people of Austrian descent and Plath-Hughes family.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Barry Kyle

Barry Albert Kyle (born 25 March 1947, in Bow, London) is an English theatre director, currently Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, England.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Benidorm

Benidorm is a municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

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Bernard Bergonzi

Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet.

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Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata.

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Birthday Letters

Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.

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Blackbird (journal)

Blackbird is an online journal of literature and the arts based in the United States that posts two issues a year, May 1 and November 1.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Evening Traveller

The Boston Evening Traveller (1845–1967) was a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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British Library Sound Archive

The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings.

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Bumblebee

A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels.

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Chalcot Square

Chalcot Square is a garden square in the Primrose Hill district of London, England.

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Confessional poetry

Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.

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Court Green

Court Green is a house on Essington Road in North Tawton, Devon, England. Sylvia Plath and Court Green are ted Hughes.

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Crossing the Water

Crossing the Water is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath that was prepared for publication by Ted Hughes.

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Cyrilly Abels

Cyrilly Abels (October 12, 1904 – November 8, 1975) was an American editor and literary agent.

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Daddy (poem)

"Daddy" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath.

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David Wevill

David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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Diane Middlebrook

Diane Helen Middlebrook (Wood; April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007)Cynthia Haven,, Stanford Report, December 15, 2007.

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Dorothea Krook-Gilead

Dorothea Krook-Gilead (Hebrew: דורותיאה קרוק-גלעד b. 11 February 1920 d. 13 November 1989) was an Israeli literary scholar, translator, and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop are American women short story writers, poets from Massachusetts and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)

Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) are American women short story writers.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Sylvia Plath and Emily Brontë are Burials in West Yorkshire and Pseudonymous women writers.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Ennui (sonnet)

"Ennui" is a sonnet by Sylvia Plath published for the first time in November 2006 in the online literary journal Blackbird.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner is an American author and critic, living in London, England. Sylvia Plath and Erica Wagner are American expatriates in England.

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Fitzroy Road

Fitzroy Road is a street in the Primrose Hill area of London.

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Forward Prizes for Poetry

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London.

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Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Donovan; 17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) was an Irish author and translator.

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Frieda Hughes

Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an English-Australian poet and painter. Sylvia Plath and Frieda Hughes are Plath-Hughes family.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. Sylvia Plath and Fulbright Program are Fulbright alumni.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.

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George Starbuck

George Edwin Starbuck (June 15, 1931 in Columbus, Ohio – August 15, 1996 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) was an American poet of the neo-formalist school.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Glascock Prize

The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. Sylvia Plath and Glascock Prize are Glascock Prize winners.

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Grabow

Grabow is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Heinemann (publisher)

William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.

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Heptonstall

Heptonstall is a small village and civil parish within the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England, historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Honor Moore

Honor Moore (born October 28, 1945) is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays. Sylvia Plath and Honor Moore are American women essayists.

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Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea (also known as the Chelsea Hotel and the Chelsea) is a hotel at 222 West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Insulin shock therapy

Insulin shock therapy or insulin coma therapy was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks.

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Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Janet Malcolm

Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová; July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague.

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Jillian Becker

Jillian Becker (born 2 June 1932) is a South African-born British author, journalist, and lecturer, who specialises in research about terrorism.

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John Horder

John Plaistowe Horder (9 December 1919 – 31 May 2012) was an English physician who worked as a general practitioner (GP).

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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams is a collection of short stories by Sylvia Plath.

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Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Sylvia Plath and Joyce Carol Oates are 20th-century American essayists, 20th-century pseudonymous writers, American women essayists, American women short story writers and Pseudonymous women writers.

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Juliana Hall

Juliana Hall (born 1958) is an American composer of art songs, monodramas, and vocal chamber music.

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Juvenilia

Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by authors during their youth.

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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Anneli Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.

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Lady Lazarus

"Lady Lazarus" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally included in Ariel, which was published in 1965, two years after her death by suicide.

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Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963

Letters Home is a collection of letters written by Sylvia Plath to her family between her years at college, in 1950, and her death at age 30.

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Life Studies

Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell.

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Lilly Library

The Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an important rare book and manuscript library in the United States.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough in Inner London, England.

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Lori Laitman

Lori Laitman is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and over 300 songs.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung.

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Mademoiselle (magazine)

Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street & Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Sylvia Plath and Marianne Moore are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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McLean Hospital

McLean Hospital (formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Monkey (novel)

Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty.

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Monoamine oxidase inhibitor

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of drugs that inhibit the activity of one or both monoamine oxidase enzymes: monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B).

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Ned Rorem

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Sylvia Plath and Ned Rorem are Fulbright alumni.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Nicholas Hughes

Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was a British and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Sylvia Plath and Nicholas Hughes are Plath-Hughes family.

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North York Moors

The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England.

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Olive Higgins Prouty

Olive Higgins Prouty (January 10, 1882 – March 24, 1974) was an American novelist and poet, best known for her 1923 novel Stella Dallas and her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in her 1941 novel Now, Voyager. Sylvia Plath and Olive Higgins Prouty are Smith College alumni.

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Otto Plath

Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. Sylvia Plath and Otto Plath are Plath-Hughes family.

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Ouija

The Ouija, also known as a Oujia board, spirit board, talking board, or witch board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", and occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics.

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Overlooked (obituary feature)

Overlooked No More is a recurring feature in the obituary section of The New York Times, which honors "remarkable people" whose deaths had been overlooked by editors of that section since its creation in 1851.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England.

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Peter Dickinson

Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.

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Peter Porter (poet)

Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM (16 February 192923 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Potboiler

A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood." Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. Sylvia Plath and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Quentin Blake

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer.

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Radical feminism

Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognizing that women's experiences are also affected by other social divisions such as in race, class, and sexual orientation.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell are McLean Hospital patients, poets from Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners and writers from Boston.

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Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor.

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Ronald Hayman

Higham Ronald Hayman (4 May 1932 – 20 January 2019) was a British critic, dramatist, and writer who was best known as a biographer.

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Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse

Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse (October 23, 1923 – May 5, 1999), also known by her married name Ruth Beuscher, was an American psychiatrist, theologian, and Episcopal priest.

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Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Sisterhood Is Powerful

Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement is a 1970 anthology of feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Spoilt Rotten

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality (subtitle in US editions: How Britain is Ruined by Its Children) is a non-fiction book by the British writer and retired doctor and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, originally published in 2010.

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St George the Martyr, Holborn

St George the Martyr Holborn is an Anglican church located at the south end of Queen Square, Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stephanie Hemphill

Stephanie Hemphill is an American author of books for young adults.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sylvia (2003 film)

Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. Sylvia Plath and Sylvia (2003 film) are ted Hughes.

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Sylvia Plath effect

The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation.

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Tatler

Tatler (stylized in all caps) is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are Plath-Hughes family.

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The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Colossus and Other Poems

The Colossus and Other Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Sylvia Plath, first published by Heinemann, in 1960.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Theodore Dalrymple

Anthony Malcolm Daniels (born 11 October 1949), also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a conservative English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist.

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Theodore Roethke

Theodore Huebner Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roethke are Fulbright alumni and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play written by William Shakespeare and likely also Thomas Middleton in about 1606.

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Tulips (poem)

"Tulips" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath.

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Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea

"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath that was first published in 1955, the year she graduated from Smith College summa cum laude. An abstract poem about an absent lover, it uses clear, vivid language to describe seaside scenery, with "a grim insistence" on reality rather than romance and imagination.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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Varsity (Cambridge)

Varsity is the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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W. D. Snodgrass

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. Sylvia Plath and w. D. Snodgrass are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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W. S. Merwin

William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. Sylvia Plath and w. S. Merwin are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.

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Wellesley High School

Wellesley High School is a public high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, educating students on grades 9 through 12. Sylvia Plath and Wellesley High School are Wellesley High School alumni.

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Wellesley, Massachusetts

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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White Horse Tavern (New York City)

The White Horse Tavern, located in New York City's borough of Manhattan at Hudson Street and 11th Street, is known for its 1950s and 1960s bohemian culture.

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Winter Trees

Winter Trees is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, published by her husband Ted Hughes.

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Winthrop, Massachusetts

Winthrop is a town in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wu Cheng'en

Wu Cheng'en (c. 1500–1582Shi Changyu (1999). "Introduction." in trans. W.J.F. Jenner, Journey to the West, volume 1. Seventh Edition. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. pp. 1–22. or 1505–1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician during the Ming dynasty.

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Yaddo

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Sylvia Plath and Yaddo are Yaddo alumni.

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Yale Series of Younger Poets

The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet.

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See also

1963 suicides

20th-century American diarists

American child writers

Burials in West Yorkshire

Glascock Prize winners

McLean Hospital patients

Plath-Hughes family

Suicides in Hampstead

Ted Hughes

Wellesley High School alumni

Yaddo alumni

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

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