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All All. Sign In. When Sylvia was eight, Otto died of complications from diabetes. Her mother struggled to give Sylvia and her younger brother every advantage of a superior education. Self-consciousness and anxiety about status and money contributed to profound insecurity Plath concealed all her life beneath a facade of energy and brilliant achievement.

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Sylvia published her first poem at age eight. By the time she entered Smith College on scholarship in , she had published many poems and short stories in newspapers and ladies' magazines. She was selected as a guest editor of Mademoiselle Magazine in Amid feverish overwork at Smith, she broke down in her junior year and attempted suicide.

She spent almost a year in a mental hospital and was given electroconvulsive shock treatments. Sylvia eventually returned to Smith, graduating summa cum laude and winning a Fulbright fellowship to study at Cambridge University in England. In February , she met poet Ted Hughes , and married him four months later. The marriage was for six years a strong union of supremely dedicated writers.

Ted's poem collections were critically praised, as was Sylvia's first volume of poetry, The Colossus, published in Sylvia worked on her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, which narrated a college student's nervous breakdown and recovery. Despite thriving careers and the birth of two children, personal jealousies and a return of Sylvia's depression troubled the marriage.