Writing And Art Of The Boston Herald s Children Section

The women that went beyond mentally insane, she stuck her head in the oven they said. The women that was so selfish to leave her young children, they said. Except I was not being selfish, nor did I go mentally insane. In my childhood, I was unbelievably smart, received many awards, presented with many scholarships. I had always been attracted to nursery rhymes and the bedtime stories my mother would read to me. After my father, Otto Plath had passed at age 55, leaving my mother, Aurelia Plath to take care of my brother Warren and I. Eight years of age and I had published my first poem in the Boston Herald’s Children section. Surprisingly from my accomplishments with poetry, I loved art everything about it. Writing and Art gave me a way to†¦show more content†¦I was refused admission to the Harvard writing seminar. Followed electroconvulsive therapy for depression. I made my first medically documented suicide attempt by crawling under my house, then took my mothers sle eping pills. I survived after lying unfound in a crawl space for three days. I spent the next six months in psychiatric care, then continued to receive more electric insulin shock treatment under Dr. Ruth Buscher. My recovery went well and I soon returned to college. 1955 I submitted my thesis, The Magic Mirror. In June, I graduated from Smith with highest honors. I obtained a fulbright scholarship to study at Newnham college, one of the three women-only colleges of Cambridge University in England. I married Ted Hughes on June 16th,1956. I found myself becoming more interested in astrology and the supernatural using Ouija boards. Ted and I moved to the United States, which became difficult for me. I took the job as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital. My daughter Frieda was born on April 1,1960. My second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Several of my poems including â€Å"Parliament Hill Fields† talked about this event. I drowned in my tears of heartbreak. My son Nicholas was born January 1962. I had a car accident which was one of my many suicide attempts. I soon then discovered Ted was having an affair with Assia Wevill. My feelings fell away from him like the shooting