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Winder, Elizabeth. Pain, Parties, Work : Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953. Harper, 2013.

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In 1935, Sylvia and her family moved to Winthrop Massachusetts from Boston as soon as her brother was born.

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"After Warren's birth, the Plaths moved to Winthrop, Massachusetts, a salty little ocean town, close to Sylvia's maternal grandparents." (57)

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PLATH--Warren Joseph. Warren Joseph Plath died peacefully at his Mount Kisco, NY home on February 14, 2021. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. Plath, 85, spent his entire career as an innovator in the field of theoretical and computational linguistics, conducting research at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center until his retirement in 2001. Notably, he was the only sibling of the poet Sylvia Plath, a distinction he publicly shunned throughout his life, consistently turning away interviewers seeking to capitalize on his older sister's suicide. Plath was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts on April 27, 1935, to Otto Emil Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath. The family moved to Winthrop in the fall of 1936 to be closer to his maternal grandparents before settling in Wellesley in the fall of 1942. Beginning in 1949, Plath attended Phillips Exeter Academy on a full, four-year scholarship and graduated valedictorian of his class in 1953. His time at Exeter was formative, as were summers spent as a candy striper in a polio ward in Boston and in Austria as part of The Experiment in International Living. A joy in his life was seeing both of his daughters as well as his two eldest grandchildren also graduate from the Academy. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1957, where he lettered in track and was a member of the Glee Club, Plath studied at the University of Bonn, Germany on a Fulbright fellowship. While working toward his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1960, he attended a social mixer at which Margaret Dorothy Wetzel, impressed by his height (he was 6' 6" to her 5' 11") asked him to dance. The couple married in Rockville Center, Long Island in 1962. Plath received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1964. His dissertation, in the field of Mathematical Linguistics and Automatic Translation, was entitled "Multiple-Path Syntactic Analysis of Russian," a language he had not studied prior to embarking on that project. At IBM, Plath built one of the many foundations that underpin modern artificial intelligence and machine translation. In 1970 he was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics, an international scientific and professional society. He received the IBM Research Division's Outstanding Contribution Award in 1981, in recognition of his work on DTAF -- Document Translation Assistance Facility. He was a member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society. Despite being a highly private person, Plath worked steadfastly to assist his mother, Aurelia Plath, in pursuing a project vitally important to her: compiling, editing, and publishing Letters Home, a collection of letters Sylvia Plath wrote to her family between her years at college and her death at age 30; the book was released in 1975. A year after his wife's death in 1992, Plath was introduced to Jennifer Reid Marcus, who would become his partner for the rest of his life. Marcus and Plath sang for many years with the Master Singers of Westchester and enjoyed traveling together to such places as the Sea of Cortez, Copper Canyon, the Galapagos, Kenya, and Tanzania. A loyal alumnus, Plath attended most, if not all, of his high school and college reunions and remained in lifelong contact with his roommates. The highlight of every year was, for him, spending summers on Cape Cod, as he had done since childhood, and watching his grandchildren grow up at his cottage in Eastham. His family and anyone who knew him well over the years will remember and miss his love of puns and word play, his brilliant mind, obsession with detail, enthusiasm for running and vegetable gardening, and lifelong fascination with the natural world. A passionate environmentalist, feminist, and anti-racist, Plath insisted on reading The New York Times from cover to cover each morning before starting his day and had a list of dozens of charitable organizations to which he contributed annually. He was proud to have achieved his goal of not dying while 45 was president. Indeed, he watched the second impeachment trial with intense interest and died the day after the vote in the U.S. Senate. Warren J. Plath was preceded in death by his parents, Otto Emil Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath; his sister, Sylvia Plath; and his wife of thirty years, Margaret Wetzel Plath. He is survived by his long-term partner, Jennifer Reid Marcus of Mount Kisco, NY; his two daughters, Jennifer Lynn Plath and husband Benjamin Boulton of Norwalk, CT, and Susan Plath Winston and husband Michael Winston of Norman, OK; and his four grandchildren, Margaret Evan Plath Kraus and Vivienne Charles Plath Kraus of Norwalk; Dorothy Plath Winston and Henry Plath Winston of Norman. The Plath family suggests that donations in Warren Plath's name be made to the Progressive Turnout Project or a local chapter of Planned Parenthood -- or to another progressive or local charity.

Published by New York Times on Feb. 20, 2022.

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WARREN PLATH Obituary (1935 - 2021) New York Times

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PLATH--Warren Joseph. Warren Joseph Plath died peacefully at his Mount Kisco, NY home on February 14, 2021. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. Plath, 85, spent his entire career as an innovator in the field of theoretical and computational linguistics, conducting research at IBM's T.J.

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In 1947, Sylvia Plath, almost the age of 15, joins twelve teenagers from her Unitarian church group for a field trip to Charles Street Jail in Boston. She writes many things about the trip in her diary, along with a man she found attractive.

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Sylvia became a Smith girl in September 1950 at the age of 17.
During her time at Smith, she got side jobs, one was working as a college correspondent to the Springfield Daily News.

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"Smith girls lived in old houses of red brick prettily arranged around Paradise Pond. The girls attended mandatory Wednesday chapel, observed curfew...and dressed nightly for dinners served on white linen tablecloths." (71)

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Sylvia needed money and so she joined the Mademoiselle's college fiction contest. During one of her shifts she is reached by telegram saying that she won the contest and gets a prize of $500 and publication in the August college issue.

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Sylvia Plath traveled by train to New York with a friend named Laurie Totten. Lived in the Barbizon hotel with other girls, with no family or relationships.

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Sylvia joins Mademoiselle's Colleges Board during her Junior year. After joining she won a position as a guest editor of Mademoiselle. Sylvia was matched up with Elizabeth Bowen and met wither her on May 26  in Massachusetts.

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"HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT YOU HAVE WON A MADEMOISELLE GUEST EDITORSHIP. YOU MSUT BE AVAILABLE FROM JUNE 1 TO JUNE 26. It was typed on yellow paper and signed by Marybeth Little, College Board editor of Mademoiselle." (23)

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Image Sylvia Plath interviewing Elizabeth Bowen

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Sylvia Plath and a girl named Neva, were yelled at for what was said between them about BTB, for BTB thought that Neva had said something rude while it was a phrase that was a compliment. BTB shouted rude things to Sylvia which made her run to the bathroom and cry. Sylvia had a puffy nose and a face full of tears before photos were taken of guest editors. Luckily, Neva ran to Sylvia to help her fix her up and took her to take pictures.

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"'BTB looks like an Irish washerwoman.' Neva meant 'Irish washerwomen' as a compliment, praising BTB's unfussy attitude and work ethic. But BTB-who had somehow been informed post haste-didn't take it that way." (40)

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Sylvia finally got a morning off on June 6. She spent her time shopping (for shoes) and went to the Museum of Modern Art alone, which she did not mind being alone.

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"She bought kitten heels in black patent leather. Then she walked-she loved walking. Alone, chicly-her fresh pumps wrapped and boxed in plain paper. From three to six she toured the Museum of Modern Art." (104)

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Museum of Modern Art

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary exhibitions and collection of modern and contemporary art are dedicated to helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.

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Laurie Totten suggested to go to Central Park and see the zoo and carousel. Sylvia accepted and so they go to Central Park where they watched people and animals in cages. Both enjoyed each others company and had fun.

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Sylvia took pictures along with the other mademoiselle girls. They stood in a star shape for the picture. Sylvia was granted the ability to write some text on the picture of her and the other girls.

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Sylvia attends a formal dance that was at the St. Regis Hotel. This event was big for guest editorship's like Sylvia Plath.

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"Sylvia wore a strapless silver lame' gown" (117)

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Sylvia goes to a ballet in City Center with Carol. After the ballet, Sylvia went to a blind date she had planned with a man named Mel Woody.

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"True to her ambitious nature, Sylvia had scheduled a blind date after the ballet-Mel Woody-tall, blond, and a sophomore at Yale." (129)

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Sylvia went to a guest editors tour of an advertising agency that had her and other editors try food. Sylvia ate crab meat that was contaminated which caused her to throw up (food poisoning). Many other editors/girls began to also feel nausea.

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Sylvia Plath is trying to read a book she had read fully more than once before, but can not. She began to think she was illiterate for she could not read and write.

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Sylvia took electroshock therapy to get rid of what is happening to her. During her electroshock therapy or "shockT," she was fully awake and felt every shock. After, Sylvia could not sleep and tried ways to help herself.

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"One side effect was severe insomnia. Despite Sylvia's lethargy, she could not sleep for twenty-one nights. The sleeping pills that had previously offered some relief were now useless." (225)

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After 58 days had passed since Sylvia left New York, she tries to kill herself on August 24 while her mother was at the movies. She tries to kill herself by swallowing many pills.

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"She took a jar of water, a bottle of Nembutal, and a blanket into the crawl space under the house and took the first pill. She sipped and swallowed and sipped and swallowed, and somewhere around the fortieth ill she blacked out." (226)

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Sylvia is locked into a psychiatric wing of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Doctors gave her insulin shots as treatment for her.

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In October, Sylvia was moved to the McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. This hospital took better care of Sylvia that eventually she was able to leave. At home she lost weight, bleached her hair, and came back to Mademoiselle to finish her semester.

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Sylvia meets Richard in April 1954, whom she adored and like for he made her feel confident and good about facing New York again.

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Sylvia Plath writes the Bell Jar eight years after her summer in New York. She published the novel beginning in 1963. She got many positive reviews back which allows it to still be printed to this day and be known as a very popular novel.

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"The book immediately jumped to the New York Times bestseller list and remained there for six months." (249)

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, from Project Gutenberg Canada

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