The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

400 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir poetry emotional slow-paced

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Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her jour...

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