1932		Born October 27 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to Aurelia and Otto Plath
1935		Brother Warren born
1937		Plath family moves to Winthrop, Massachusetts
1940		Otto Plath dies following a leg amputation resulting from a diabetic condition
1942		Plath family moves to Wellesley, Massachusetts
1950		Enters freshman year at Smith College on scholarship
1952		August: Publishes a prize-winning story, “Sunday at the Mintons’,” in Mademoiselle
1953		Summer: Guest managing editor at Mademoiselle, New York City
		August 24: Suicide attempt in Wellesley, Massachusetts, at home
1954		Winter: Returns to Smith for second semester
		Summer: Attends Harvard Summer School
1955		May: Graduates from Smith with prizes for poetry
		October: Begins Fulbright year at Newnham College, Cambridge University
1956		February 25: Meets Ted Hughes
		April: Trip to Germany and Italy with Gordon Lameyer
		June 16: Marries Ted Hughes
		Summer: Long honeymoon in Benidorm, Spain
1956–57		Second Fulbright year
		Living in Cambridge
1957		June: Returns to America with Ted Hughes; holiday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1957–58		Instructor in English, Smith College
1958–59		Writing and hospital clerical job in Boston; seriously involved in therapy; attending Robert Lowell’s poetry class
1959		Summer: Sight-seeing trip across America
		Fall: Writing poetry at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs
		December: Leaves for England
1960		April 1: Birth of daughter, Frieda Rebecca, at home in London
		October: The Colossus published in England
1961		February: Miscarriage
		March: Appendectomy
		August: Moves to Devon
1962		January 17: Birth of son, Nicholas Farrar
		May: The Colossus and other Poems, U.S. edition
		October: Separates from Ted Hughes
1963		January: The Bell Jar published in England under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
		February 11: Suicide in London