The Library
The following selection of images of books in Plath's library at Smith, Indiana, Emory, and Virginia are arranged roughly according to when she read or acquired them. For further information about each volume, see Peter Steinberg's catalogue on Library Thing.
Prior to College
While Attending Smith College, 1950-1955
Newnham College, Cambridge University, 1955-1957
Northampton and Boston, 1957-1959
For further information about the books Plath taught, see Amanda Golden, “Sylvia Plath’s Teaching Syllabus: A Chronology.” Plath Profiles 2 (Sumer 2009): 209-220 and with Ellen Nodelman, “Recollections of Mrs. Hughes’s Student.” Plath Profiles 5, Supplement (Fall 2012): 125-139.