Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath

• Born in Boston
• Father died when she was eight
• She felt her emotional suffering as an adult was
  a result of this loss

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Sylvia Plath

• Awarded a scholarship to Smith College
• Flourished academically and pursued creative
  writing

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Sylvia Plath

• Won coveted fiction prize from Mademoiselle
  magazine in her junior year
• Spent the summer as a guest editor in the
  magazines New York office

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Sylvia Plath

• At the end of that summer she became depressed
  and attempted suicide
• Received psychiatric treatment and electroshock
  therapy

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Sylvia Plath

• Those experiences were the basis of her novel The
  Bell Jar
• She returned to college
• Was ill for years with manic depression because
  there was no effective treatment

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Sylvia Plath

• After graduation she attended Cambridge
  University on a Fulbright fellowship
• Married Noted English Poet Ted Hughes

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Sylvia Plath

• Had two children
• 1963 she and her husband were separated
• She committed suicide that winter