Biography 1932- Sylvia Plath was born in a seaside suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. She published her first poem when she was eight. 1956 - She married the English poet Ted Hughes. 1957 - Hughes and Plath move to Massachusetts. 1959 - Move back to England. 1960 - Their first child Frieda is born. The same year, when she was 28, her first book, The Colossus, was published in England. 1962 - Plath gives birth to a second child, a son. 1962 - Hughes leaves Plath for another woman. Plath moves to a flat in London, an apartment that William Butler Yeats once lived in. 1963-The Bell Jar is published under a pseudonym, Victoira Lucas. She writes poetry at a feverish pace. She struggles with depression through a difficult winter. 1963 - February 11, Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30. Two years later Ariel, a collection of some of her last poems, was published; this was followed by Crossing the Water and Winter Trees in 1971, and, in 1981, The Collected Poems appeared, edited by Ted Hughes. October 1962 - InterviewThe Arrival of the Beebox Here is a copy of the PowerPoint we completed last year;
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