Sylvia plath childhood home

Some addresses are not listed here; for example Plath attended summer camps throughout the s in New Hampshire (Camp Weetamoe), Massachusetts (Camp Helen Storrow), and a sailing camp on Martha's Vineyard.

• 24 Prince Street, Jamaica Plain, MA ()
• 92 Johnson Avenue, Winthrop, MA ()
• Shirley Street, Winthrop, MA ( - primarily during Otto Plath's illness)
• 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley Hills, MA ()
• Haven House, Elm Street, Smith College, Northampton, MA ()
• Lawrence House, Green Street, Smith College, Northampton, MA (; )
• Room , The Barbizon Hotel, East 63rd Street, New York City, NY (June )
• North Belknap at McLean Hospital, Mill Street, Belmont, MA (August January )
• Whitstead, 4 Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9JZ, England ()
• 55 Eltisley Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9JQ, England ()
• 59 Tomas Ortunio, Benidorm, Provincia de Alicante, Spain (Summer )
  
  
• Hidden Acres, McKoy Road, Eastham, MA (Summer )
• Elm Street, Northampton, MA ()
• 9 Willow Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA ()
• The Beacon, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7ET, England (September ; Winter )
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One of the other things I learned on my tour of 26 Elmwood Roadin August was that I got the house that inspired the description of Dodo Conway's wrong. This new information was alluded to in a post on McLean Hospitallast month. I have long known that Dodo Conway was inspired by Sylvia Plath's Wellesley neighbor Betty Aldrich. The Aldrich family -- C. Duane and Betty and their nine children -- lived at 23 Elmwood Road which is across the street at a diagonal to the Plath house. The house I thought inspired Plath's description was a little further down the road. Today, the Aldrich house, like many in Wellesley and other affluent towns, appears to have been greatly improved from the way it looked in the s.

Of Dodo and the Conways, Plath wrote in The Bell Jar:


Dodo Conway was a Catholic who had gone to Barnard and then married an architect who had gone to Columbia and was also a Catholic. They had a big, rambling house up the street from us, set behind a morbid façade of pine trees&#; ( )

It was the "up the street from us" that led me to deduce the wrong house&#; So, I suppose this would be an instance of light fictionalization in the novel because in reality, the house is one house away at a diagonal and across the street.

Plath was not done, she continued:


Her house was

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