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.
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 - Interview
The Arrival of the Beebox
Here is a copy of the PowerPoint we completed last year;
Here is a copy of the PowerPoint we completed last year;
the_arrival_of_the_bee_box.pptx |