Additional News Articles on Sylvia Plath's First Suicide Attempt

As I do, I recently checked for more articles on Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt in August 1953. The timing was right and there were a few additional articles. To quote Blur, "Woohoo!"

The first is from the Miami Daily News from August 26, 1953. The article title is "Student Missing." It appeared on page one and included Plath's photograph.

The second and third articles appeared in the Meriden Record (Connecticut). On the August 26, 1953 edition, on page 10, readers read about how a "Brilliant College Girl Disappears." Very dramatic.

The following day, the Meriden Record ran "Missing Senior Found Under Porch" on the front page. This article is not yet linked. I'm ahead of Google! However, let this not deter you from finding and reading the article for yourself. If you click "Browse this newspaper," then "View All" under 1953, then scroll to August 27, click it and then mouse down to the bottom right of the first page. You'll have it!

These represent articles 174 and 175 that I have found on Plath's first suicide attempt. What is frustrating is that the bibliography section of my article "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath" is now out of date. I suppose it is a happy frustration because this is the nature of bibliography; and finding new articles only goes to further illustrate the pull of this story. There is nothing new in these articles when compared to the others, however at this point in my research of this topic it is most interesting to see how far the news spread. I will continue to post newly found articles when I find them. If any of your are in towns or cities not covered in the aforementioned bibliography and have some spare time to visit your public or college library to investigate whether it has newspapers on microfilm from August 1953 and want to check August 25-28th for articles please let me/us know if you find something. Please. And please send me photocopies/scans. I'd be most curious about New Orleans, Dallas, St. Louis, Detroit, Denver, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Seattle, Cleveland, Raleigh, Juneau, to name a few.

You can see a bibliography of articles on Plath's first suicide attempt, and read PDF's of them, over at A celebration, this is.

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