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Caption:
Eastham
Cape Cod

Reference:
Plath & Hughes honeymooned in a cottage much like this.


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Nauset Light Beach
Eastham
Cape Cod

Reference:
"Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset."
(from "Daddy").


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Nauset Light Beach
Cape Cod

Reference:
Sand cliffs, looking north.



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Rock Harbor
Cape Cod

Reference:
See Plath's first New Yorker poem "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor".


Caption:
A cluster of mussels at Rock Harbor.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor"


Caption:
337 Elm Street
Northampton, Mass.


Reference:
Plath & Hughes lived here whilst from 1957-1958.


Caption:
Child's Memorial Park
Northampton, Mass.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Child's Park Stones".


Caption:
Stones in Childs Memorial Park. Northampton, Mass.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Child's Park Stones".


Caption:
A stone in Child's Park
Northampton, Mass.

Reference:
Child's Park has stones like this throughout.


Caption:
Stone lion head founntain
Child's Memorial Park

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers" and Journals, pages 393-5.


Caption:
The rose-beds in Child's Memorial Park

Reference:
See "Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers".


Caption:
The path leading from Paradise Pond

References:
See Journals, pages 386-391.


Caption:
9 Willow Street
Boston, Mass.

Reference:
Plath & Hughes lived on the sixth floor of this building.


Caption:
A view over the Boston Public Garden, Boston Common, and Beacon Hill.

Reference:
The red arrow designates 9 Willow Street.


Caption:
Fassett Recording Studio
24 Chestnut Street
Boston, Mass.

Reference:
Just around the corner from 9 Willow Street, Plath recorded her poetry here for the Woodberry Poetry Room.


Caption:
The Ritz (now the Taj)
Boston, Mass.

Reference:
Plath, Sexton, and others came here to drink after attending Robert Lowell's class at Boston University.


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15 Agawam Road
Waban, Mass.

Reference:
The home of Dr. Ruth Beuscher in the late 1950s.


Caption:
The gate at Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Reference:
Plath & Hughes spent the fall of 1959 here. Plath wrote the majority of poems from The Colossus here.


Caption:
The rose garden at Yaddo.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "The Manor Garden".


Caption:
The Manor House
Yaddo.

Reference:
Plath resided in West House off the left hand side of this photograph.


Caption:
Woods at Yaddo.

Reference:
A quiet place for inspiration.


Caption:
Pond at Yaddo.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Dark Wood, Dark Water".

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