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43 Newly Found Articles on Sylvia Plath's First Suicide Attempt

On 24 August 2017, I put out a call for help in searching for articles on Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt. Tim Clair of Plath Project came to the rescue! Searching a combination of web resources, he identified an article from Mount Pleasant, Iowa's newspaper the Mount Pleasant News.

Tim shared with me his searches and queries and as a result, I signed up for newspapers.com and located a cache of additional newspaper articles from across the country. I also popped up to Harvard and found two additional newspaper articles from the Evening Star out of Washington, D.C., from one of their digital resources. So in all, more than forty new articles on Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt have been identified. This is incredible and please please join me in thanking Tim very sincerely for heeding the call.

Below is a bibliography of those articles in order by date, and then by newspaper names.

August 25
"Top Student Missing." Newport Daily News. August 25, 1953: 7.

August 26
"Subject…" The Akron Beacon. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Brilliant College Girl is Sought." Albuquerque Journal. August 26, 1953: 17.
"Missing Student Found." The Cincinnati Enquirer. Kentucky edition. August 26, 1953: 11.
"College Poetess Hunted in Woods." The Des Moines Register. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Missing College Girl is Found." Des Moines Tribune. August 26, 1953: 8.
"Missing College Girl, 20, Hunted in Massachusetts." Evening Star. August 26, 1953: A-2.
"Smith College Poetess Object of Wide Search." The Holland Evening-Sentinel. August 26, 1953: 3.
"Police in Greater Boston…" The La Crosse Tribune. August 26, 1953: 21.
"Student Missing." The Miami News. Main edition. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Student Missing." The Miami News. Broward edition. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Searches Comb Woods For 20-Year-Old Girl." The Montgomery Advertiser. August 26, 1953: 10.
"Missing Student Found." The Mount Pleasant News. August 26, 1953: 2.
"Smith College Co-Ed Missing." New Castle News. August 26, 1953: 9.
"Missing Student Found in Cellar of Her Home." The News Journal. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Hound Joins Hunt for Girl." The Orlando Sentinel. August 26, 1953: 16.
"Missing." The Pittsburgh Press. August 26, 1953: 4.
"Girl, Honor Student in College, Missing." The Post-Standard. August 26, 1953: 1.
"Missing Student Found in Cellar." Poughkeepsie Journal. August 26, 1953: 28.

August 27
"Senior Found; Drug Victim." Albany Times-Union. August 27, 1953: 3.
"Missing Co-Ed Found in Cellar." Albuquerque Journal. August 27, 1953: 17.
"Smith College Girl is Found." Asheville Citizen-Times. August 27, 1953: 36.
"Missing Smith College Senior Found in Cellar." The Burlington Free Press. Main edition. August 27, 1953: 2.
"Missing Smith College Senior Found in Cellar." The Burlington Free Press. Other edition. August 27, 1953: 2.
"Missing Girl Found Under Porch of Home." The Cumberland News. August 27, 1953: 1.
"College Girl Found." Daily Press. August 27, 1953: 17.
"Missing College Girl, 20, Found Under Home Porch." Evening Star. August 27, 1953: A-5.
"Missing College Girl Found At Her Home." The Greenville News. August 27, 1953: 1.
"Smith College Poetess Found Unconscious." The Holland Evening-Sentinel. August 27, 1953: 2.
"Missing Honor Student Found." The Indianapolis Star. August 27, 1953: 24.
"Missing Girl Poet Found Unconscious." Long Beach Independent. August 27, 1953: 12.
"Missing College Student Found Asleep in Cellar." The Morning Call. August 27, 1953: 3.
"Missing College Girl Is Found Semi-Conscious." The Montgomery Advertiser. August 27, 1953: 1.
"Co-Ed Found." The Orlando Sentinel. August 27, 1953: 1.
"Find Missing Girl Safe Under Porch." The Post Sentinel. August 27, 1953: 3.
"Home All Along." Shamokin News Dispatch. August 27, 1953: 1.
"Found." Star Tribune. August 27, 1953: 3.
"Missing." The Tampa Times. August 27, 1953: 16.
"Missing College Girl Found Under Porch Of Her Home." The Tampa Tribune. August 27, 1953: 6.
"Will Recover." The Tennessean. August 27, 1953: 10.
"Missing Girl Found Asleep in Mass Home." The Times. August 27, 1953: 9.
"Missing Girl Found in Cellar." The Times Recorder. August 27, 1953: 1.

August 28
"A Wide Search." The Ithaca Journal. August 28, 1953: 11.

So, if you count them all, that's 43 new articles and brings the total up to 256! All of them are now a part of the bibliography of Articles on Sylvia Plath's First Suicide Attempt on my website for Sylvia Plath A celebration, this is, available with images of the articles and transcriptions. Enjoy!

Thank you so much Tim!!!!

All links accessed 28 August 1953, I mean 2017.
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