After her junior year at Smith College, she stayed in New York City for a while, as a guest editor at Mademoiselle Magazine. It was at that period of time that nothing went well for her and that she was thinking of committing suicide (Steinberg). However, with all the events that happened during that summer, she was really inspired and she published an autobiographical novel named The Bell Jar. Soon after, Plath attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills (Steinberg). With the help of psychotherapy to fight against her depression, she returned to Smith College and finished her degree in 1955. Sylvia then moved to England to study at Cambridge, where she met the poet Ted Hughes. They got married in 1956 and had a turbulent relationship ("Sylvia Plath"). After giving birth to two children, the couple's marriage was sadly falling apart. In June 1962, she had a car accident, which she described as one of her suicide attempts and one month later she discovered that her husband was having an affair with another woman (Steinberg). She then returned alone to London with her children during the winter of 1962-63. It was a really cold winter and the children were often sick and Sylvia did not have a lot of money to fund for treatment. All of this drew her back into depression but fortunately, her poetry collection was completed before her tragic suicide in February 1963 by intoxicating herself with gas ("Short Biography"). Sadly, this woman's life story was not a happy one, even when she tried to portray a joyful life, she was really depressed, and this is shown through many of her poems. .
As stated above, the life of Sylvia Plath definitely affected her writing and the way she wrote poetry. One of the most famous poems that she wrote in October 1962, just before her death, is the poem "Daddy." This work refers to her father's death and may also have linked to her estranged husband, Ted Hughes.
