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3 Chalcot Square
London

Reference:
Plath and Hughes lived here from 1960 through August 1961.


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3 Chalcot Square
London

Reference:
After it was recently painted but before the blue plaque.


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3 Chalcot Square
London

Reference:
With the blue plaque in place.


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Chalcot Square

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One of the lovely squares in the Primrose Hill neighborhood of London.



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Near Chalcot Square

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A street just off Chalcot Square.


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Primrose Hill
London

Reference:
The Faber paperback of Winter Trees uses a similar view on its cover.


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Primrose Hill
London

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A lovely park with views of London from the top.


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York Minster Pub
49 Dean Street
Soho, London

Reference:
Plath signed the contract for Heinemann edition of The Colossus here on 10 February 1960.

Now called the French House.


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St. George's Terrace
London

Reference:
Dido and W.S. Merwin lived on this street.


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House of Dido & W.S. Merwin
11 St. George's Terrace
London

Reference:
Plath drafted most of The Bell Jar here in the spring of 1961.


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Close-up of 11 St. George's Terrace
London

Reference:
Plath used the Merwin's study which was on one of the upper floors.


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Parliament Hill Fields
Hampstead

Reference:
See Plath's poem "Parliament Hill Fields".


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Plath with Frieda and Nicholas.

Reference:
See Hughes's poem "Perfect Light" in Birthday Letters.


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Town centre
North Tawton

Reference:
Court Green is up the street and to the right.


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Fore Street
North Tawton

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Leading toward the River Taw.


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Market Street
North Tawton

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Leading toward Essington Road and Court Green.


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St. Peter's Church
North Tawton

References:
Plath attended some services and set part of her story "Mothers" here.


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Steeple of St. Peter's

Reference:
From Essingdon Road.


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The row of headstones between the cemetery and Court Green.

Reference:
See Plath's poem "The Moon and the Yew Tree".


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Essington Road
North Tawton

Reference:
Court Green is on the right.


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The cottages at Court Green

Reference:
Rose and Percy Key lived here. See Plath's Journals and poem "Berck-Plage".


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The gate at Court Green.

Reference:
This gate is built against the wall separating Court Green from the cemetery.

Plath refers to this wall as "the wall of old corpses" in her poem "Letter in November".


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Court Green
North Tawton

Reference:
The thatched cottage of Court Green.


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Property at Court Green.

Reference:
Notice the clusters of daffodil stalks and the apple trees.


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Property at Court Green

Reference:
One of the apple trees.


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Near the River Taw

Reference:
The approximate location of Plath's poem "The Bee Meeting". See also her Journals, pages 656-9.


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Town clock & Bloggs garage
North Tawton

Reference:
See Plath's The Journals, Appendix 15, page 633.


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"Sheep in Fog"
Dartmoor

Reference:
Plath rode horses near here.


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Pier Bar
Cleggan, Ireland

References:
Plath & Hughes stayed near here with Richard Murphy in September 1962.


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The harbour
Cleggan, Ireland

Reference:
Plath & Hughes set off from here with Richard Murphy to visit the island of Inishbofin.


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Monument to the Cleggan Distaster.

Reference:
The subject of a Richard Murphy poem Plath judged in 1962 for the Guinness award at the Cheltenham Festival.


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Road to the Old Forge.

Reference:
An unpaved road is one of two ways to the Old Forge.


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The Old Forge
Cleggan

Reference:
Plath & Hughes stayed here.


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Second building at The Old Forge.

Reference:
A quiet cul-de-sac in a quiet town.


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Autograph Tree
Coole Park
Gort, Ireland.

Reference:
Plath and Hughes visited Coole Park in September 1962.


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Initials on the tree.

Reference:
Did Hughes add his initials to the tree? A "TH" is visible diagonally up to the right from the number 8?


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Yeats' Tower
Thoor Ballylee

Reference:
Nearby to the town of Gort is Thoor Ballylee.


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Fitzroy Road
London

Reference:
The row houses on Fitzroy Road. The blue plaque for W.B. Yeats is visible.


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23 Fitzroy Road
London

Reference:
Plath lived here from December 1962 until her death on 11 February 1963.


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The door and plaque at 23 Fitzroy Road

Reference:
The Irish poet and dramatist W.B. Yeats lived in this house as a boy.


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Front doors and facades

Reference:
The road ends at Primrose Hill.


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Mountfort Crescent
London

Reference:
The Becker's lived at No. 5. Plath stayed with them the last weekend of her life.


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Coroner's Court
University College Hosptial.

Reference:
Plath was taken here after her death.


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A way to Heptonstall.

Reference:
A footpath leads from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall.


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The spires of Heptonstall Church

Reference:
From the moor.


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Me at Plath's grave
September 1996

Reference:
I have much less hair now.


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Sylvia Plath's grave

Reference:
Are these tulips "too excitable"?


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Sylvia Plath's grave
Heptonstall

Reference:
Photograph taken on 11 February 2003.


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New cemetery
Heptonstall.

Reference:
Plath's grave is in this row.


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Neilson Library
Smith College

Reference:
Home to the Sylvia Plath Collection.


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A dedication plaque at Wellesley High School.

Reference:
Erected in 2000, the 50th anniversary of her high school graduation.


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Frieda and Nicholas Hughes at 3 Chalcot Square

Reference:
Take at the unveiling of Plath's Blue Plaque.


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Sylvia Plath's blue plaque.

Reference:
On her former home at 3 Chalcot Square.

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