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Feb 5, 2023 · On February 11, 1963, American poet Sylvia Plath died by suicide inside her London home at the age of just 30 after putting her head in the oven.
- Kaleena Fraga
In his 1972 book on suicide, The Savage God, friend and critic Al Alvarez claimed that Plath's suicide was an unanswered cry for help. [44] In a BBC interview in March 2000, Alvarez spoke about his failure to recognize Plath's depression, saying he regretted his inability to offer her emotional support: "I failed her on that level.
Feb 12, 2015 · What drove Sylvia Plath to her death was painfully clear to her psychiatrist: clinical depression. But after the acclaimed poet, just 30 years old, committed suicide on this day, Feb. 11, in 1963, her friends, fans, and biographers were eager to blame the tragedy instead on a flesh-and-blood villain.
Oct 27, 1999 · Sylvia Plath entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1951. She achieved considerable artistic, academic, and social success, but she also suffered from severe depression , attempted suicide , and underwent a period of psychiatric hospitalization.
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- Sylvia Plath was an American writer whose best-known works, including the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly expr...
- Sylvia Plath published her first poem at age eight. She entered and won many literary contests. She first sold a poem, to The Christian Science Mon...
- Sylvia Plath entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1951. She achieved considerable artistic, academic, and social success, but she also suffere...
- In 1956 Sylvia Plath married the English poet Ted Hughes; they had two children. The couple separated in 1962 after Hughes had an affair. Hughes co...
- The Collected Poems, which included many previously unpublished poems, appeared in 1981 and received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, which made...
Chief among those female artists who have become defined by their suicide is the US poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, who died on 11 February 1963. Since then, her name has become a by-word for...
- Lillian Crawford
Dec 9, 2018 · Sylvia Plath, as everybody knows—but as she did not, on the autumnal Tuesday that she was writing about baked pineapples to her mother and about being menaced by gods in her diary— committed...
Feb 11, 2013 · Fifty years ago today, poet and author Sylvia Plath quietly placed a tray with a couple glasses of milk next to her two sleeping children, then walked to the kitchen, shut the door, sealed the...
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