Sylvia Plath's Copy of Portrait of the Artist

Excerpts from Sylvia Plath's copy of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), in the University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Plath underlined this copy as a student at Smith College. She owned a copy of The Portable James Joyce, held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University, in which she underlined and annotated Portrait of the Artist to teach first year English at Smith College from 1957-1958. For further information, see Golden, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020).