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1 The Life of Sylvia Plath. By: Katie Stuart, Joanna Mott, and Chelsey Moore.

2 Beginning. Born – October 27, 1932. Boston, MA. Parents: Aurelia Schober and Otto Emil Plath. 1936 they moved to Winthrop, Massachusetts. Her father died in 1940. Plath's first poem and first drawing published in Boston newspapers. First poem, The Colossus and Other Poems, published in 1960

3 Middle. Attended Bradford High School. Graduated in 1950, receiving a full scholarship to Smith College. Seventeen magazine published her short story, "And Summer Will Not Come Again," The Christian Science Monitor published "Bitter Strawberries, " a poem August 24, 1953, attempted to commit suicide, swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills.

4 End. Married Ted Hughes. Children: Frieda Rebecca, Nicholas Farrar. summer of 1962, Sylvia learned of Ted's adultery and they were separated. Most famous work The Bell Jar. Committed Suicide in London, England, February 11, 1963.

5 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 (1981) Selected Poems (1985) Plath: Poems (1998)

6 Children Books. The Bed Book (1976) The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996) Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001) Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)

7 Prose. The Bell Jar (1963), Letters Home (1975) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977) The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982) The Magic Mirror (1989) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, (2000)


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