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Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known confessional women poets of the twentieth century.

When Sylvia Plath was studying in Smith College she struggled with depression.
In 1955, she graduated from Smith College and was awarded
a Fulbright Fellowship to Cambridge University. There she met Ted Hughes who according to her was a perfect andthey got married.

Later on Sylvia Plath wrote in her journal that though Ted knew how much she loved him
yet he was not there when she needed him. “… isn’t this an image of what I feel of my
father did to me?
Plath attended classes of Robert’s course in poetry at Boston University there she met with
Anne Sexton whose work had become an inspiration to her. At that time again Plath was facing mental depression.

1962 Hughes left Sylvia Plath and his two children for another woman and went to live in London. After that Sylvia managed to keep her life moving, taking good care of her children. Till then she worked on her novel the bell jar, published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. But in the same year life was unbearable to her and she
committed suicide. #TedHughes betrayal became the main cause of her suicide. Ted Hughes
himself told that he was responsible for Plath’s suicide .In a letter that Hughes wrote to
Aurelia Plath he confesses that his “madness” played a
major part in Plath’s depression, which ended in her suicide.

Plath gradually rose to fame after her death
Inspiring the 2003, Hollywood film about her life, starring Gwyneth Paltrow in ‘Playing Sylvia’.

She wrote ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ when she was just twenty years old before she met Ted Hughes and a student at Smith College, in Massachusetts.
An American journal, Mademoiselle published Plath’s poem ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ in their August 1953 issue.
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Sodhganga - Sylvia Plath, the making of the poet.
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