Sylvia Plath: her life in art and photographs in pictures | Books

A visual history of the writer Sylvia Plath is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It includes photographs of her throughout her life, rarely seen artwork including self-portraits and letters, and personal objects, including her childhood ponytail, preserved by her mother. Sylvia Plath: One Life can be seen until

Sylvia Plath: her life in art and photographs – in pictures

A visual history of the writer Sylvia Plath is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It includes photographs of her throughout her life, rarely seen artwork including self-portraits and letters, and personal objects, including her childhood ponytail, preserved by her mother. Sylvia Plath: One Life can be seen until 20 May 2018

Sarah Gilbert

Main image: Sylvia Plath’s ‘Marilyn’ shot Photograph: Gordon Ames Lameyer/Courtesy of The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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  • Triple-Face Portrait, c 1950-1951

  • Sylvia Plath’s Childhood Ponytail with her mother’s inscription, August 1945

  • Sylvia Plath standing beside her bicycle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1951

  • A War to End Wars, self-portrait, 26 February 1946

  • Studio photograph of Sylvia Plath, 1954

  • Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, UK, 1956

  • Plath’s ‘Marilyn’ shot, June 1954

  • Sylvia Plath with typewriter in Yorkshire, September 1956

  • Self-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style, c 1946-1952

  • Sylvia Plath, 1959

  • Sylvia Plath with her two children, Nicholas and Frieda, April 1962

  • ’Twas the Night Before Monday, undated
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