ng pills but was found and saved. After a hospitalization, she was given electroshock treatments and psychotherapy and released to go back to school for a successful last year. She won many prizes and publications and even a scholarship to the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes, an English poet who later became her husband in 1956. They moved to Boston a year later and Plath became an instructor at Smith. After a series of failed attempts to publish poetry books, the couple moved back to England where they had their children, Freida and Nicholas. However, Plath's medical problems and miscarriage left her distraught. Finally, her book of poetry, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) was accepted and published by William Heinemann Limited. Also, she received a Eugene F. Faxton Fellowship to complete the novel she had begun about her nervous breakdown called The Belljar, "Which happened to be published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, due to Plath's insecurities." (Magnusson 1170) Unfortunately, her marriage was deteriorating, and her husband was having an affair. She and Ted separated in 1962.During the time between her separation and her suicide in 1963, she was extremely depressed and often ill from the cold and draughty apartment where she and her children lived. With no telephone and frozen pipes, her despair was intense, but these things fueled her furious writing. Often, she would write every morning before the children woke. Her emotions revealed in her writing directly before her death explain her painful struggle to stay alive. On February 11, 1963 she used towels to prevent gas seepage into the children's room and killed herself quietly while they slept. Her painful autobiographical poems were published in Ariel (1965), Winter Trees (1971), and Crossing the Water (1971). Her Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes, was published in 1982.Sylvia Plath's life, and even sometimes foremostly her ...
