February, 1954 Plath returns to Smith.
1955 Plath graduates, goes to England on a Fuibright scholarship.
1956 Plath meets Ted Hughes in February; marries him June 16 (Bloomsbury Day).
1956–57 Plath's second Cambridge year; English country trips.
1957–58 Returns to America with Hughes. Instructor in English, Smith College.
1958–59 Takes a hospital clerical job in Boston after quitting her Smith position to devote more time to writing. Plath also enrolls in Robert Lowell's poetry seminar and meets the poet Anne Sexton.
Fall, 1959 Plath writes at Yaddo, the writers retreat at Saratoga Springs, New York. In the winter, she and Ted return to England.
1960 Frieda Rebecca, born at home, April 1, London. November: The Colossus published in England.
1961 Plath suffers a miscarriage and has an appendectomy.
January 17, 1962 Nicholas Farrar born. The Colossus published in the United States.
September, 1962 Ted leaves Sylvia.
December, 1962 Plath moves to London, to a house once resided in by the poet William Butler Yeats.
January, 1963 The Bell Jar, published under the name Victoria Lucas, appears to generally favorable reviews.
February 11, 1963 Plath commits suicide in her London flat by turning on the gas jets.
1965 Ariel published in London.
1966 Ariel published in the United States.
1971 The Bell Jar published in the United States with Plath's name as author.
1981 Collected Poems published in the United States.
Journals published in the United States.
1998 Ted Hughes breaks his silence about his marriage to Sylvia Plath by publishing Birthday Letters, a collection of poems about their relationship. He dies that same year.
2000 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath published.
