According to her mother, Sylvia had always been an overachiever. After her father's death, her mother moved the

In 1950 she was offered a scholarship to Smith College. There she continued achieving straight A's maintaining her "perfect" streak. She once wrote home to her mother saying:

"I think I would like to call myself 'the girl who wanted to be God'." (Plath, Letters Home)

The following summer Ted and Sylvia split up and agreed to a legal separation. On January 14, 1963 one of her most famous works, a novel (part audiobiographical, part fiction) was published under the pen name Victoria Lucas. On February 11, 1963 Sylvia ended her life by placing her head in a gas oven in her home. Less than a year later Ariel a collection of her poems was published. Years after her death several more of her works have been published such as Crossing the Water and Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981), put together by her

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