Silvia Plath
American
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 1932/10/27 | Sylvia Plath is born to Aurelia and Otto Plath in the Jennie B Robinson Memorial building, Mass Homeopathic Hospital, Harrison Ave (at E Concord St) in Boston. Now part of the University Medical Center. | Born | Robinson Building, Boston Med | Boston | |||
| 1942/00/00 | Aurelia Plath moves her children and her parents to 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts. | Hometown | Silvia Plath Residence | Wellesley | |||
| 1944/09/00 | Silvia Plath enters Alice L Philips Junior High School at 324 Washington St. | Education | Intermediate Building | Wellesley | |||
| 1947/06/00 | Silvia Plath graduates from Alice L Philips Junior High School. | Education | Intermediate Building | Wellesley | |||
| 1947/09/00 | Plath attends Wellesley High School at 50 Rice Street, Wellesley, 1947 to 1950. Formerly known as Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School, it was razed in February 2012. | Education | |||||
| 1949/06/00 | June - July, Silvia Plath attends a Unitarian Conferences at the Oceanic Hotel on New Hampshire's Star Island. | Faith | Oceanic Hotel on Star Island | Isles of Shoals | |||
| 1950/07/00 | During the summer of 1950, Sylvia Plath works at Lookout Farm, 89 Pleasant St, South Natick, Massachusetts. | Work | Natick | Massachusetts | |||
| 1953/05/31 | Laurie Totten, a junior at Syracuse University and fellow Mademoiselle guest editor, and Sylvia Plath arrive at Grand Central station. | Traveler | Grand Central Terminal | New York City | |||
| 1953/05/31 | A yellow cab honking its way through the glass and steel canyons of Manhattan, takes Laurie Totten and Sylvia Plath to the Barbizon, a women-only hotel on the corner of Lexington Ave and 63rd St. | Home | Barbizon Hotel for Women | New York City | |||
| 1953/06/00 | Sylvia Plath begins a 20 month-long position of guest editor at Mademoiselle. On the morning of her first day, Plath meets magazine's editor, Betsy Talbot Blackwell, in the magazine's dark-green and pink conference room. | Work | The Bell Jar | ||||
| 1953/06/10 | Mademoiselle guest editors attend a party at the terrace room of the St Regis Hotel. Sylvia enjoys the music from two alternating bands, a dinner of shrimp, chicken, salad and parfait and being whisked on to the dance floor with a daiquiri in her hand. | Party Guest | St Regis Hotel, NYC | New York City | Daiquiri | ||
| 1953/08/24 | Sylvia Plath crawls under her house and swallows a bottle of her mother's sleeping pills. | Health | Silvia Plath Residence | Wellesley | |||
| 1953/08/26 | Found three days later, Sylvia Plath is admitted to Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. | Health | Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District | Newton, MA | |||
| 1953/09/03 | Sylvia Plath is moved to the Psychiatric Ward at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. | Health | Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | |||
| 1953/09/14 | Sylvia Plath enters McLean Hospital for six months of treatment, which she will write about in "The Bell Jar". She stays at the Women's (South) Belknap House. | Health | The Bell Jar | McLean Hospital National Register District | Belmont, MA | ||
| 1955/00/00 | Sylvia Plath graduates from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. | Education | Smith College | Northampton, MA | |||
| 1956/06/16 | Sylvia Plath marries Ted Hughes at St George the Martyr, Holborn. Plath once described Hughse as "a singer, story-teller, lion and world-wanderer" with "a voice like the thunder of God." On the same day, Ted's first poem is accepted by Poetry. | Bride | Church Of St George The Martyr, London | London | Marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | ||
| 1959/00/00 | Must get out Snake Pit. There is an increasing market for mental-hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive, recreate it. - Sylvia Plath, journal entry | Writing | The Snake Pit (book) | ||||
| 1959/10/00 | Plath and Hughes sojourn at the Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York State in late 1959. | Guest | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | |||
| 1959/12/00 | Sylvia and Ted Hughes move to 3 Chalcot Square, near the Primrose Hill area of Regent's Park. | Home | Camden Town | ||||
| 1961/00/00 | After the publishing of her "The Colossus and Other Poems", Plath gets beyond writer's block enjoys "a night of inspiration". She begins writing The Bell Jar every morning at a great pace, completing a draft in 70 days. | Author | The Bell Jar | ||||
| 1961/08/00 | In late August, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath move into Court Green. | Home | Court Green | North Tawton | Marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | ||
| 1962/12/10 | Sylvia Plath leaves Court Green house in North Tawton, Devon, England. | Life | Court Green | North Tawton | Marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | ||
| 1963/01/14 | "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas by British publisher William Heinemann. | Author | The Bell Jar | ||||
| 1963/02/11 | After sealing the rooms between her and her sleeping children with tape, towels and cloths, Sylvia Plath places her head in the oven with the gas turned on and dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. | Died | Camden Town | Marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes | |||
| 1963/02/18 | Sylvia Plath's funeral takes place at Church of St Thomas A' Becket in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire. She is buried near Hughes' parents outside the churchyard wall of St Thomas the Apostle. | In Memoriam | Church Of St Thomas A' Becket | Heptonstall |
1 Creative Work by Silvia Plath »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| The Bell Jar | Author | Novel | 1963/01/14 |
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