What is this project about?

In this Archive of Digital Documentary Editions of some selected Sylvia Plath's writings you will find all the aspects that bring an author's manuscripts to the digital world, from the transcription of his/her creation in a machine-readable way to semantic annotation and enhancement of the text using tools such as the TEI guidelines in order to have a project aligned with the F.A.I.R. principles, that meaning: Findable, Accessibe, Interoperable and Reusable.

Meet the author

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an accomplished American poet, novelist and short story writer, known for her confessional style and exploration of themes related to personal turmoil, depression and death. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was an outstanding student and earned several writing awards during her time at Smith College. After graduation, Plath moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright scholarship and studied at the University of Cambridge. It was there that she met and married fellow poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had two children. Despite her relatively short life and career, Plath’s work remains highly influential and widely studied in modern literature.

How is it organized?

This website is conceived as a temporal path throughout Sylvia Plath’s works, beginning at the time she met her husband and finishing it with the second draft of her first and only novel before taking her own life.

In the timeline section is possible to find the transcriptions of her works and explore them on the viewer, also browsabe through the “Editions” option on the top of this page.

More on Documentation

In the documentation section, also accessible by the option on the top of this page, you can find in details the process to the realization of the project. Regarding also technical information, the choice of the apropriate encoding in the TEI Guidelines and bibliographic information.