children, Frieda and Nicholas, before separating in 1962.

Plath suffered a lifelong battle with severe depression, often characterized as a bipolar-type illness, leading to multiple traumatic treatments with early model electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She died by suicide at age 30 in London on February 11, 1963.

Biography

Early life and education

Plath was born on October

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