[Photocopies of newspaper articles related to Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt, 1953] / collected and arranged by Peter Keating Steinberg. 1953.

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[Photocopies of newspaper articles related to Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt, 1953] / collected and arranged by Peter Keating Steinberg. 1953.

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Photocopies of contemporary newspaper articles on Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt on August 24, 1953. The photocopies are arranged by the cities and states (mostly Massachusetts) and newspapers that published news articles or brief notes on Plath's "disappearence" in 1953. A bibliography is included, as well as a computer file of the articles. These articles were gathered for an essay by Steinberg entitled: "They had to call and call": the search for Sylvia Plath. It was published in: Plath profiles 3 (summer 2010).

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Steinberg, Peter K., 1974-

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Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963

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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965. From t...