Sylvia Plath’s Teaching Syllabus: A Chronology

Abstract

The chronology below draws on Plath's teaching notes (housed at the Lilly Library, Indiana University), correspondence, and journal entries.In addition to information Plath recorded, 1957 and 1958 calendars also provided dates and days of the week. 2• Plath taught three class sections that met at nine and eleven in the morning and three in the afternoon (UJ 388-9).Her afternoon classes met on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and her morning classes met on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.3 Following her first class meeting with the Wednesday afternoon section (LH 326), the three class sections progressed at slightly different paces.At points in her teaching notes Plath indicated the amount she had covered in specific class sessions and what to address next.In addition to the readings the

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