And they know, of course, of her suicide, which occurred in London in February, 1963, when she was 30, the estranged wife of Ted Hughes (now Britain's poet laureate) and the mother of two small children. People may not know Plath's poetry, but - thanks largely to her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar - they know of the morbid anxiety that plagued her during her Massachusetts childhood and her college days at Smith. TO THE general public, the name Sylvia Plath may well be more familiar than that of any other postwar American poet.
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