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Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Austrian mother and a German father. -
World War II began with the Nazi invasion of Poland. It involved more than thirty countries until the Allies defeated the Axis Powers.
Plath's writings, such as her poem "Daddy," were heavily influenced by the events of World War II and the Holocaust. -
Her father, Otto Plath, died as a result of complications with diabetes. -
Plath published her first poem in the Boston Herald at the age of eight. -
Plath set her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, in the year 1953 -
Plath attempted suicide by overdosing on her mother's sleeping pills. -
Plath graduated from Smith College summa cum laude. She went on to study at Newnham College in Cambridge after receiving a scholarship. -
She met Ted Hughes, an English poet, at a party. A letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes -
Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes in London. -
In England, Plath published her first collection of poems entitled Colossus. -
Sylvia Plath gave birth to a daughter, Frieda in London. -
Plath was left by her husband, who had been having an affair. -
Plath gave birth to a son, Nicholas, in England. -
Later in the year, Plath wrote the poem collection Ariel, which was eventually published posthumously.
Sylvia Plath reading "The Applicant" -
Plath published The Bell Jar under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." First Reviews of The Bell Jar -
Sylvia Plath died in London, England by committing suicide at the age of thirty. Content Warning: Sylvia Plath's Final Letter -
Description: In 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, setting into motion a new wave of feminism.
Plath’s writings, most notably The Bell Jar, were influenced greatly by feminism.