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A Child Prodigy
Sylvia’s talent was rooted in some solid intellect and education.
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Her background, of which I knew nothing then, belied her housewifely air: she had been a child prodigy - her first poem was published when she was eight - and then a brilliant student, winning every prize to be had, first at Wellesley High School, then at Smith College: scholarships all the way, straight A’s, Phi Beta Kappa, president of this and that college society, and prizes for everything. A New York glossy magazine, Mademoiselle, had picked her as an outstanding possibility and wined her, dined her and photographed her all over Manhattan. Then, almost inevitably, she had won a Fulbright to Cambridge, where she met Ted Hughes.
-- “The Savage God” by A. Alvarez
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For the record, she came from an academic family, a schoolteacher mother and professor father, with both parents of German stock and German-speaking. She wasn't simply an eccentric who tried to compose verse to make her life meaningful. She was on a decided career path.
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Her background, of which I knew nothing then, belied her housewifely air: she had been a child prodigy - her first poem was published when she was eight - and then a brilliant student, winning every prize to be had, first at Wellesley High School, then at Smith College: scholarships all the way, straight A’s, Phi Beta Kappa, president of this and that college society, and prizes for everything. A New York glossy magazine, Mademoiselle, had picked her as an outstanding possibility and wined her, dined her and photographed her all over Manhattan. Then, almost inevitably, she had won a Fulbright to Cambridge, where she met Ted Hughes.
-- “The Savage God” by A. Alvarez
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For the record, she came from an academic family, a schoolteacher mother and professor father, with both parents of German stock and German-speaking. She wasn't simply an eccentric who tried to compose verse to make her life meaningful. She was on a decided career path.