Ariel: The Restored Edition (16 page)
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Authors: Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime,
The Colossus
(1960), and a novel,
The Bell Jar
(1963). Her
Collected Poems,
which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
This ebook edition published in 2010
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
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© the Estate of Sylvia Plath, 2004
Previously unpublished material © the Estate of Sylvia Plath, 2004
Foreword © Frieda Hughes, 2004
Notes and editorial matter © HarperCollins Publishers, 2004The right of Sylvia Plath to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
The facsimiles found here are reproductions of the originals from the Sylvia Plath Collection, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Grateful acknowledgement to Karen Kukil, Associate Curator, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
An extension of this copyright page, and the previous publishing history of the Plath works collected here, appears in the Notes section, beginning on page 195.
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ISBN 978–0–571–26418–6
