Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's life, relationships and struugles

Sylva Plath was born on October 27th,1932 in Bosten Massachusetts to her mother Aurelia Plath and father Otto Plath. Plath grew up with her younger brother Warren Joseph Plath, Plath said she has always been found of her brother and played a significant role in Plath’s life. Later on, in life Plath’s father died from diabetes when she was just eight years old, leaving Warren and her left with they’re Mother. Plath didn’t Like her mother growing up, Plath felt that her mother did not show love towards her father and has refired to her as a “monster’ in her journals later in life. Growing up Plath had always loved writing and art, she even wrote and published her first poem at the age of eight, titled “Poem”. The poem was about summertime, fireflies and crickets. a few years later when Plath was ten, she started to feel “unhappy” and became somewhat “depressed”, Plath states. Years later at twenty-one Plath got diagnosed with clinical depression also known as major depressive disorder and struggled with suicidal thoughts and low self-esteem. That same year she wrote and published her most famous book The Bell Jar. This book was the only book Plath published herself before her death, other books that include Sylvia Plath are, The unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Arial and the collected Poems of Sylvia Plath. when Plath was in her later twenties, she married Ted Huges and had two kids when she was thirty, Frieda Hughs and Nicholas Hughs. On February 11,1963, Plath took her own life due to the struggles of her mental health and her marriage. Although she did die young, she is a very influential woman and an amazing writer we still remember today.

oct 27.1932-feb 11. 1963