Plath was born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father was from the German town of Grabow and immigrated to the United States at the age if fifteen. He taught applied biology at Borton University, where he met Aurelia Plath, whom he married in January, 1932. He was known as a bee expert, but in 1935 his health began to decline. "When in August, 1940, he stubbed his toe and suffered immediate complications, he was diagnosed as suffering from diabetes mellitus." (Robinson,404) His toe grew worse, and his leg was amputated. He soon died f

The winter proved to be one of the worst on record and life in the hut became intolerable. The children were ill, the weather was cold, there was little heat, the pipes had frozen and Plath was suffering extreme depression over her seperation from Hughes. On January 14, 1963 The Bell Jar was published to only luke warm reviews. Her mood worsened and on February 11, 1963, Plath committed suicide in the kitchen of her flat.

In conlusion, Sylvia Plath was a model daughter, wife and mother but underneath she was very depressed and could not deal with the pressure to succeed. Plath's drew all of her material directly from her life. It was her father's death, her attempted suicide, and her husband leaving her alone to raise her children because of another woman that drew the depressive energy to write her greatest works. Plath struggled to deal with these events, and worte about them so others could see and feel what happened to her. I think Sylvia Plath was a great writer of poems and books. Although seeming weak to some, at certain points in Plath's life she proved to be the strongest of people, through being brave enough to expose her innermost pain to the world.

In September 1950, Plath entered Smith College. She received financial aid from Nelson scholarship, the Smith Club or Wellesley, and the Olive Higgins Prouty fund. Plath continued to thrive both socially and academically she continued, however, to have trouble blending the two. Plath continued to write poems and stories and send them to several publishers like "Merdemoiselle", "Seventeen", and "Harper" magazines. Her mother became her part-time agent and typist.

2. Mossburg, Barbara. Great American Women Writers . Salem Press Inc., page 295.

In the summer of 1949, one year after being in Boston, the Hugheses planned to return to England. Ted Hughes had been awarded a Guggenheim grant to write for the next year and Ted wished for a child. In December 1959, Plath and Hughes settled in London. They spent the winter writing, reading and developing new friendships. Early in 1960, Plath signed a contract with William Heinemann for the first poetry volume, "The Colossus and Other Poems" and Hughes's second volume was published. On April 1, 1960, Frieda Rebecca Hughes was born. Although her first child was wonderful, Plath found the following year increasingly difficult. Her new duties left little time for writing.

rom pulmonary embolus. Plath's mother had also been a teacher of English and German. Aurelia instilled Plath with an achievement ethic, which drove her precocious talent for writing and drawing. " Otto's death, his dramatic circumstances, and the insuring move inward to Wellesley affected Plath profoundly. Writing poetry became a new way of being happy. The sea, her father, and childhood became a haunting loss." ( Mossburg,395)

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