The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College .

Published by Faber & Faber, 2001, softcover, illustrated, 732 pages, 15.2 cms x 23.7 cms x 5.4 cms, condition: as new.

This is a transcription of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath over the last 12 years of her life. It gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poems.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.