Sylvia Plath

11 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Sylvia Plath’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • The Bell Jar6
  • Ariel: The Restored Edition1
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath1

8 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 3 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 4 easy, 6 medium and 1 hard. Most of Sylvia Plath’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 72.6 letters over 18.9 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 27.3% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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