Sylvia Plath: A life in photographs: 1955-1957

Plath entered Cambridge in September 1955. She met many people, and in addition to her studies, acted in the Amateur Dramatics Club. On 26 February, 1956, she met Ted Hughes at the launch party for the Saint Botolph's Review. She and Hughes married in London on 16 June, 1956, and honeymooned that summer in Benidorm, Spain. Plath marketed both her own poems and those written by Hughes. In early 1957, his collection The Hawk in the Rain won a prize and was accepted for publication. Plath was offered a teaching position for that fall in the English Department at Smith College. The next photograph gallery covers the period of 1957-1959, when Plath & Hughes were in America.

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	Caption: River Cam Cambridge, England	Reference: The River Cam behind King's College.
	Caption: Newnham College Cambridge University	Reference: Plath's college while a Fulbright Scholar.
	Caption: Newnham College	Reference: In Plath's time, the stone boy with dolphin was located in these garden's.
	Caption: Stone Boy with Dolphin	Reference: Inspriation for Plath's story "Stone Boy with Dolphin". Also the subject of numerous journal entries. For an example, please see page 200 in the Journals.
	Caption: Queen's Bridge	Reference: Plath purportedly bought her copy of the Saint Botolph's Review here on 25 February 1956.
	Caption: Whitstead 4 Barton Road	Reference: Plath's residence for her first 15 months in Cambridge.
	Caption: Whitstead The white house in the distance.	Reference: Plath walked through these sporting fields on her way to Newnham.
	Caption: Grantchester Meadows	Reference: The subject of Plath's poem "Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows", published in The Colossus. Located near 55 Eltisley Avenue, Hughes and Plath frequently walked here.
	Caption: Grantschester Meadows	Reference: Another view of the river at Grantchester Meadows.
	Caption: Eltisley Avenue	Reference: Near Barton Road & Whitstead, Eltisley Avenue is a quiet residence street of rowhouses.
	Caption: 55 Eltisley Avenue	Reference: Plath & Hughes lived here from late 1956 through June 1957
	Caption: The Amateur Dramatics Club (ADC) Theatre	Reference: In late 1955, Plath played Alice in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair at the A.D.C.
	Caption: St. George-the-Martyr Queen's Square, London	Reference: Church where Plath and Hughes married on 16 June 1956
	Caption: The altar inside the church of St. George-the-Martyr.	Reference: Plath & Hughes were married here on 16 June 1956.
	Caption: 18 Rugby Street London	Reference: Hughes lived here when he & Plath met
	Caption: Heptonstall Church & village	Reference: Yorkshire, England
	Caption: Hardcastle Crags	Reference: See Plath's poem "Hardcastle Crags"
	Caption: Hardcastle Crags	Reference: The crags are located just outside of Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge