SylviaPlath

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SYLVIA PLATH (1932 - 1962) = = = = = = =Personal Life-= Born oct. 27, 1932 in Boston, massachusetts First started writng in a journal at a young age Went to school at Smith college in 1950 She spent time in New York working for Mademoiselle magazine She tried to kill herself while in New York by taking sleeping pills She spent time in a mental health facility but she finished school when sh got out Fulbright fellowship made it possible for Plath to go to cambridge University in England Had two children with Ted Hughes Ted Hughes left her for another women After her husban leftt her she moved back to England with her kids She suffered form severe depression In the end her mental illness got the best of her and the thid time she tried to kill herself she did In 1963 she killed herself by gasing herself in the oven she was 30 at the time = = = = = = =Professional Life-= She was a teacher for a short amount of time =Major works= Best Known for her book //the bell jar// http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/belljar/summary.html In 1981 //The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath// was published, edited by Hughes Some of her works are //Ariel, winter Trees, and Johnny panic and the Bible of Dreams// Her play was called //Three Women The colossus// was a collection of poems published in 1960 =Style or Favorite Theme= Her style was dark she wrote about her life and the depression she went through