For my second post for this novel I thought I would do a little bit of research on the author of this novel, Sylvia Plath, and see what else I could find out about her. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932 during the Great Depression. When she was 8 her father died due to complications of an amputated foot due to mistreated diabetes. This was a hard thing on her; she didn’t follow religion following this tragedy for the rest of her life. Plath attended Smith College in 1950 and excelled academically. Later she received a full scholarship to Newnham College where she continued her writing and publishing her work in the student newspaper.
Dr. John Horder, a close friend to Plath gave her antidepressants a few days before her death because he knew she would be alone with her two kids he checked in on her everyday. He tried to get her to go to a hospital but that didn’t work, so he tried to get a in house nurse to go live with her. The day that the nurse went to the house she couldn’t get in, once they did get in however they found her dead with carbon monoxide poisoning from the stove; she put her head in the stove and sealed of the doors and windows with wet cloth so that the gas wouldn’t get to her children, she then turned on the gas in the stove and stuck her head in until she died (that’s quite horrible!). Her writing didn’t really get noticed until after she had passed away, that is the saddest part. I just wish that she could have had a little bit more time on the earth to pursue her writing career to its fullest potential.
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