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, Children's fiction, Drama, American literature, short story, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama, Classic Literature, Literature, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Satanism, freedom, meaning of love, selfhood, short stories, Mothers and daughters, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Young men, self-fulfillment, American poetry, Brothers and sistersPlaces
Massachusetts, Mallard residence, England, United States, Jefferson, Missouri, New England, Saint Louis, Salem Village, Alabama, Boston, Milford meeting house, Mississippi, New York, Owl Creek Bridge, Wall Street, Yoknapatawpha County, Andover, Araby, Araby bazaar, Barbados, Calcutta, China, Eastern Europe, FloridaPeople
Brently Mallard, Devil, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Amanda Wingfield, Elizabeth, Faith Brown, Fortunato, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Jim O'Connor, Lady Fortunato, Laura Wingfield, Luchresi, Montresor, Mr. Hooper, Tom Wingfield, Bartleby, Cicero, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Ginger Nut, Homer Barron, John Jacob AstorTime
19th century, 1600s, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Antebellum era, Carnival, 1692, 1861-65, 20th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1950s, 1953, Civil War, December, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL4327652A
- GoodReads: 4379
- 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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Alternative names
- Victoria Lucas
- Lucas, Victoria [Plath, Sylvia]
- Sylvia plath
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