The Life Of Sylvia Plath

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The Life Of Sylvia Plath

• By Katie Stuart, Chelsey Moore, and Joanna Mott

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Begging

• Born- October 27th 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts.
  
• Parents Aurelia Schober and Otto Emil Plath.
• In 1936 they moved to Winthrop, Massachusetts.
• Her father sadly died in 1940 when she was only 8
  years old.
• Plaths first poem was The Colossus and Other
  Poems, in 1960.

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Middle

• Attended Bradford High School.
• Graduated in 1950 and received a full scholarship
  from Smith College.
• Seventeen Magazine published her short story,
  And Summer Will Not Come Again.
• The Christian Science Monitor published her poem,
  Bitter Strawberries.
• August 24th she attempted to kill her self by
  over dosing on sleeping pills.

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End

• Married Ted Hughes.
• She had two children, Frieda Rebecca, and
  Nicholas Farrar.
• In the Summer of 1962, she learned that Ted was
  cheating on her.
• Her most famous work was The Bell Jar.

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• Plath ended up dieing on February 11th 1963 in
  London, England..
• She stuck her head in a gas oven.

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Her Poetry.

• The Colossus and Other Poems (1960)
• Ariel (1965)
• Three Women A Monologue for Three Voices (1968)
• Crossing the Water (1971)
• Winter Trees (1971)
• The Collected Poems (1985)
• Selected Poems (1985)
• Plath Poems (1998)

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Childrens Books

• The Bed Book (1976)
• The It-Doesnt- Matter- Suit
• Collected Childrens Stories
• Mrs. Cherrys Kitchen