Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury. The community seceded
Soldier's Monument and First Unitarian Universalist Church in Jamaica Plain
This milestone marking five miles (8 km) from the Boston Town House, now the site of the Old State House in downtown Boston, was placed on Centre Street by Paul Dudley in 1735.
Skating On Jamaica Pond by Winslow Homer, 1859
Classic triple deckers on Child Street
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobi
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…Michelle Johnson, journalist Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), poet, novelist, and short-story writer Gary Provost (1944–1995), writer…
Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, Cambridge
Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar
Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes's home from 1959