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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
In 1963, Plath committed suicide by placing her head in her oven; she was 30 years old. Her life, body of work, and death have been adopted by modern feminism as an example of womanhood under the throws of mental illness and unfair spousal treatment, and her work is still praised and criticized today.
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In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...
February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat about a month after her only novel, the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar, appears and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge".
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" had very dark tones and imagery including death and suicide, in addition to the Holocaust. Plath wrote about her father's death that occurred when she was eight years old and of her ongoing battle trying to free herself from her father. Plath's father, Otto Plath, had died from complications after his leg amputation.
The 19-year-old Walmart worker who was found dead inside a walk-in oven at a store in Canada has been identified. ... An investigation into the woman’s death is ongoing, according to police, who ...
A teenage Walmart employee who was found dead at her store’s walk-in oven last week was said to be “locked” inside with the power still on, according to audio of emergency officials ...