![]() ![]() ![]() She had been working in fits and starts on a novel about her early years at Cambridge, titled Falcon Yard, but it never caught fire. Plath wrote The Bell Jar in the spring and summer of 1961 when she was living in London with her husband, the British poet Ted Hughes, and their one-year-old daughter. Throughout this time Plath aspired to write a novel, but the form eluded her until she was nearly thirty. Her first book of poetry, The Colossus, received excellent reviews when it came out in 1960. ![]() A Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge University followed, and, after graduating in 1957, she began publishing poems in the New Yorker and other prestigious literary journals. Plath became the star of the English department at her undergraduate alma mater, Smith College, where she won top prizes and graduated summa cum laude in 1955. She published regularly in her school magazines by the time she was eighteen, her poetry and fiction had appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Seventeen after more than fifty rejections. Her first poem was published when she was just eight years old in a Boston newspaper, and she began writing an early novel, titled Stardust, when she was nine. Illustrations: © Alexandra Levasseur, 2022įrom the time she was a young child, Sylvia Plath wanted to write. ![]()
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