https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1 By Elizabeth Winder en-us 2022-02-02 20:21:37 UTC 2022-04-02 06:29:19 UTC hello@padlet.com matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2066618773 Winder, Elizabeth. Pain, Parties, Work : Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953. Harper, 2013.]]> 2022-02-25 16:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2066618773 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2066680986 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.

]]> 2022-02-25 16:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2066680986 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125109873 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)]]> 2022-04-01 09:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125109873 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125120372 Image Sylvia Plath interviewing Elizabeth Bowen]]> 2022-04-01 09:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125120372 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125554873 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)]]> 2022-04-01 14:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2125554873 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126187050 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.]]> 2022-04-02 02:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126187050 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126252770 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)]]> 2022-04-02 04:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126252770 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126256212 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.]]> 2022-04-02 04:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126256212 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126258608 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)]]> 2022-04-02 04:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126258608 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126260353 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.]]> 2022-04-02 04:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126260353 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126266205 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)]]> 2022-04-02 05:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126266205 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126268827 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.]]> 2022-04-02 05:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126268827 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126271387 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)]]> 2022-04-02 05:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126271387 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126273715 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)]]> 2022-04-02 05:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126273715 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126274773 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.]]> 2022-04-02 05:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126274773 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126276844 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.]]> 2022-04-02 05:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126276844 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126277811 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)]]> 2022-04-02 05:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126277811 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126279396 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)]]> 2022-04-02 05:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126279396 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126281050 Sylvia is locked into a psychiatric wing of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Doctors gave her insulin shots as treatment for her.]]> 2022-04-02 05:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126281050 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126281539 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.]]> 2022-04-02 06:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126281539 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126284072 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)]]> 2022-04-02 06:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126284072 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126285715 Sylvia meets Richard in April 1954, whom she adored and like for he made her feel confident and good about facing New York again.]]> 2022-04-02 06:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126285715 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126288759 2022-04-02 06:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126288759 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126289429 2022-04-02 06:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126289429 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126290722 Museum of Modern Art]]> 2022-04-02 06:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126290722 matrulia000 https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126291286 2022-04-02 06:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/matrulia000/9cf0vc1ys543ggz1/wish/2126291286