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 Lifecan be seen until 20 May 2018
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Triple-Face Portrait, c 1950-1951
Photograph: © The Estate of Sylvia Plath/Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Sylvia Plath’s Childhood Ponytail with her mother’s inscription, August 1945
Photograph: Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Sylvia Plath standing beside her bicycle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1951
Photograph: Marcia B Stern/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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A War to End Wars, self-portrait, 26 February 1946
Photograph: © Estate of Sylvia Plath/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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Studio photograph of Sylvia Plath, 1954
Photograph: Warren Kay Vantine/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, UK, 1956
Photograph: Harry Ogden/Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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Plath’s ‘Marilyn’ shot, June 1954
Photograph: Gordon Ames Lameyer/Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Sylvia Plath with typewriter in Yorkshire, September 1956
Photograph: Elinor Friedman Klein/Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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