Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, UK, 1956

Photograph: Harry Ogden/Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Studio photograph of Sylvia Plath, 1954

Photograph: Warren Kay Vantine/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Sylvia Plath standing beside her bicycle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1951

Photograph: Marcia B Stern/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Sylvia Plath with typewriter in Yorkshire, September 1956

Photograph: Elinor Friedman Klein/Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Sylvia Plath, 1959

Photograph: Rollie McKenna/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;

Sylvia Plath’s Childhood Ponytail with her mother’s inscription, August 1945

Photograph: Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Sylvia Plath with her two children, Nicholas and Frieda, April 1962

Photograph: Siv Arb/Writer Pictures

A War to End Wars, self-portrait, 26 February 1946

Photograph: © Estate of Sylvia Plath/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

Self-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style, c 1946-1952

Photograph: Estate of Robert Hittel

Triple-Face Portrait, c 1950-1951

Photograph: © The Estate of Sylvia Plath/Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

’Twas the Night Before Monday, undated

Photograph: Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana