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Caption: Plath's Royal typewriter
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Reference: Now held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
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Caption: College Hall Smith College Northampton, Mass.
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Reference: One of the first thing a visit to Smith College sees.
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Caption: Haven House Smith College
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Reference: Plath's residence house from 1950-1952.
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Caption: Haven House
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Reference: Plath's room was on the third floor, on the right side of this picture.
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Caption: Lawrence House Smith College
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Reference: Plath's residence house from 1952-1955.
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Caption: The front of Lawrence House.
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Reference: Lawrence House is next to the Library, off Green Street.
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Caption: Memorial Fountain Smith College
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Reference: Looking towards Paradise Pond.
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Caption: Paradise Pond Smith College
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Reference: Where, according to Plath, the "girls take their boys to neck on weekends."
See Plath's Journals, page 390.
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Caption: 393 Walnut Street Brookline, Mass.
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Reference: The home of Olive Higgins Prouty, Plath's benefactress. See "Tea with Olive Higgins Prouty" in the Sylvia Plath Collection, Smith College.
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Caption: Prospect Street New Haven, Conn.
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Reference: Plath stayed at a house on this street when visiting Richard Norton.
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Caption: Behind the Sterling Chemistry Building looking towards downtown New Haven.
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Reference: See Plath's Journals, pages 51-2 and The Bell Jar, Chapter Five.
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Caption: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory Yale University New Haven, Ct.
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Reference: The front of the building is much nicer than the back.
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Caption: 144 Beach Bluff Swampscott, Mass.
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Reference: Plath baby-sat for the Mayo's during the summer of 1951.
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Caption: 144 Beach Bluff.
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Reference: The lawn looking towards the Atlantic. See Plath's Journals, pages 67-68
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Caption: 144 Beach Bluff.
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Reference: The front door faces west, away from the sea.
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Caption: Above 144 Beach Bluff.
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Reference: Taken from a plane, the red arrow points to the house and lawn.
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Caption: Looking across to Children's Island.
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Reference: At the tip of Marblehead Neck. See Plath's poem "The Babysitters".
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Caption: 47 Cypress Street Wellesley, Mass.
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Reference: The Norton family home.
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Caption: The Belmont Hotel West Harwich, Cape Cod.
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Reference: Plath waitressed here briefly during the summer of 1952. See her Journals and Letters Home.
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Caption: Site of the Belmont Hotel West Harwich, Cape Cod.
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Reference: Now condominiums, The Belmont Hotel stood here.
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Caption: Beach at the Belmont Hotel site West Harwich, Cape Cod.
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Reference: Now the beach is private, but once Plath likely swam here.
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Caption: Bay Lane Chatham, Cape Cod.
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Reference: Plath was a mother's helper for the Cantor's later in the summer of 1952.
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Caption: Chatham Bars
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Reference: The beach near Bay Lane. Plath took the Cantor children here.
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Caption: Barbizon Hotel New York, N.Y.
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Reference: Plath resided here in the summer of 1953 in room 1511.
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Caption: Another view of the Barbizon Hotel.
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Reference: Plath renamed the hotel "The Amazon" in her novel, The Bell Jar.
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Caption: 575 Madison Avenue New York, N.Y.
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Reference: The location of Mademoiselle's offices when Plath was Guest Editor in June 1953.
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Caption: Egg Rock off Nahant, Mass.
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Reference: See Plath's poem "Suicide Off Egg Rock" and The Bell Jar, Chapter 13.
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Caption: Egg Rock
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Reference: From Long Beach, Lynn, Mass.
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Caption: Valleyhead Hospital 84 South Street Carlisle, Mass.
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Reference: Plath underwent ECT treatment here in the Summer of 1953.
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Caption: Valleyhead Hospital Carlisle, Mass.
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Reference: An area on the side of the building.
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Caption: Valleyhead Hospital Carlisle, Mass.
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Reference: The other side of the building.
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Caption: Morses Pond Wellesley, Mass.
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Reference: Police and citizens searched for Plath here during her first suicide attempt in August 1953.
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Caption: Newton-Wellesley Hospital Newton, Mass.
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Reference: Plath first recuperated here.
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Caption: Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Mass.
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Reference: Plath transferred to the Psychiatric Ward here before being sent to McLean Hospital.
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Caption: Entrance sign McLean Hospital Belmont, Mass.
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Reference: Plath's third and final hospital during her recovery.
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Caption: A map of the grounds at McLean.
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Reference: The map is reminiscent of a university campus.
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Caption: North Belknap McLean Hospital
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Reference: Plath recovered in here; likely the inspiration for Caplan in The Bell Jar.
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Caption: South Belknap House McLean Hospital
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Reference: I believe Plath may have convalesced here, too.
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Caption: Administration Building McLean Hospital.
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Reference: Plath may have used the color of this building to describe Dr. Gordon's private hospital in "Walton" in The Bell Jar.
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Caption: Wyman House McLean Hospital
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Reference: Likely the inspiration for Wymark in The Bell Jar.
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Caption: Widener Library Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
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Reference: In The Bell Jar, Esther meets Irwin at the top of the steps. See Chapter 19.
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Caption: Harvard Yard Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
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Reference: In Chapter 19 of The Bell Jar, Plath writes,
"I was standing at the top of the long flight, overlooking the red brick buildings
that walled the snow filled quad ..."
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Caption: Elwood Road Wellesley, Mass.
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Reference: The inspiration for Dodo Conway's house in The Bell Jar.
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Caption: Bay State Apartments 1572 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Mass.
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Reference: Plath sublet Apt. 4 here in the summer of 1954. See Nancy Hunter-Steiner's A Closer Look at Ariel.
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