Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath , was a second-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath, was from Grabow, Germany. Plath's father was an entomologist and a professor of biology at Boston University who authored a book about bumblebees.

after this, she moved from 24 Prince Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to 92 Johnson Avenue, Winthrop, Massachusetts. her maternal grandparents, the Schobers, had lived in a section of the town called Point Shirley, a location mentioned in Plath's poetry.

in the Boston heralds, child section. over the next few years she would goon to publish many other poems.

Otto Plath died a week and a half after Plath's eighth birthday, of complications following the amputation of a foot due to untreated diabetes.Raised as a Unitarian, Plath experienced a loss of faith after her father's death and remained ambivalent about religion throughout her life.Her father was buried in Winthrop Cemetery, Massachusetts. A visit to her father's grave later prompted Plath to write the poem "Electra on Azalea Path"

Aurelia moved her children and her parents to 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1942. Plath commented that her first nine years "sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle—beautiful inaccessible, obsolete, a fine, white flying myth"

In addition to writing, she showed early promise as an artist, winning an award for her paintings from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Plath also had an IQ of around 160

from Bradford Senior High School

Plath attended Smith College, a private woman's liberal arts college in Massachusetts. She excelled academically, and wrote to her mother, "The world is splitting open at my feet like a ripe, juicy watermelon"

after her 3rd year at college , she was given a place as guest editor at mademoiselle magazine. The experience was not what she had hoped it would be, and many of the events that took place during that summer were later used as inspiration for her novel The Bell Jar.

did not meet with Dylan Thomas , a welsh poet that she greatly admired. Following this , she slashed her legs to see if she had 'enough courage to commit suicide'