45 years ago today on Monday, 11 February 1963, Sylvia Plath took her life.
To honor her life and memory, over the last few weeks I have been cataloging the books in Sylvia Plath's personal library into LibraryThing.
Plath's library is split between three venerable institutions: Smith College, Indiana University, and Emory University. The SylviaPlathLibrary re-assembles her library as it once was. There are other famous libraries on LibraryThing, please see the I see dead people['s books] group for more.
There are bound to be more books out there; if you know of any, please send me an email with as much information as possible. I should add this catalog does not currently show titles Plath read but did not own. I hope to add the titles Plath read or mentioned but did not own; but pinning down these titles and their specific dates and editions is much more difficult. One title that jumps to mind immediately is Generation of Vipers, which she references in her poem "The Babysitters".
I find it odd that there is no holdings information on The Colossus or The Bell Jar between Smith, Indiana, and Emory. Where are Plath's own copies of her books? Following the example of other author's libraries on LibraryThing, I added books to the catalog published by either Sylvia Plath or Ted Hughes in Plath's lifetime; from The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes in 1957 through The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas/Sylvia Plath in 1963.
To honor her life and memory, over the last few weeks I have been cataloging the books in Sylvia Plath's personal library into LibraryThing.
Plath's library is split between three venerable institutions: Smith College, Indiana University, and Emory University. The SylviaPlathLibrary re-assembles her library as it once was. There are other famous libraries on LibraryThing, please see the I see dead people['s books] group for more.
There are bound to be more books out there; if you know of any, please send me an email with as much information as possible. I should add this catalog does not currently show titles Plath read but did not own. I hope to add the titles Plath read or mentioned but did not own; but pinning down these titles and their specific dates and editions is much more difficult. One title that jumps to mind immediately is Generation of Vipers, which she references in her poem "The Babysitters".
I find it odd that there is no holdings information on The Colossus or The Bell Jar between Smith, Indiana, and Emory. Where are Plath's own copies of her books? Following the example of other author's libraries on LibraryThing, I added books to the catalog published by either Sylvia Plath or Ted Hughes in Plath's lifetime; from The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes in 1957 through The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas/Sylvia Plath in 1963.