sylvia plath-a short biography

She was born on October 27, 1932, she grew up in a middle-class family, in a town near Boston. She had a brother named Warren, and parents Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her parents married and were very happy for most of their marriage. Her father Otto was a German who came to study ministry at Northwestern University, and ended up a Biology teacher at Boston University, he specialized in bees, which explains Sylvia’s references in much of her poetry to a beekeeper. Her mother was a German and English teacher at Brookline High School, until she married Otto, when she became a homemaker.

Sylvia’s father Otto died when she was 8, from gangrene in his toe, I’ve also heard that it had something to do with an undiagnosed case of diabetes as well. Sylvia often felt responsible in some sense for her father’s death, though there was absolutely no re

Her first publication was a short couplet she wrote when she was 8, published in the Boston Sunday Herald. She sent many of her works to various magazine, and newspapers, and quite a few were published. In the summer of her third year of Smith College, she was a guest editor of Mademoiselle magazine. Shortly afterward on August 24, 1953 Sylvia almost succeeded in committing suicide, by severely overdosing on sleeping pills. She was treated with intense psychotherapy and electroshock therapy, she recovered, and graduated in 1954.

After her suicide attempt she began to write at a fast and furious pace. Her work became darker as her life went on. During her senior year she excelled and received various prizes, and graduated summa cum laude. In 1955, having been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, she began two years at Cambridge University. She met Ted Hughes, a British poet, there and they married on June 16, 1956. Their marriage was very happy and ideal at first. Her home and husband then became her top priorities, she had felt she found her soul mate in Ted. They moved to England and that’s where Sylvia spent most of the rest of her life.

In 1960 her first book of poems, The Colossus, was published, it showed her incredible talent, but was far more conventional than those that followed. The same year, her first child was born, a daughter they named Frieda. Sylvia had a miscarriage the next year, and then in January 1962 she had her second child, a boy whom was named Nicholas. That year was an eventful one for Sylvia, most of which were for the worst. In July she found out of Ted’s affair with Assia Wevill, and in Septemb

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