Ted hughes sylvia plath

Sylvia Plath, who took her own life in 1963 aged 30, married British poet Ted Hughes in 1956, four months after the pair fell in love at first sight at a party in Cambridge.

Five decades after her death Sylvia Plath continues to provoke inflaming conflict and scandal—and no more corrosively than among those who care most intensely about her. Nothing about her life or legacy seems wholesome or resolved. The world of Plath biography is an especially crowded and rancorous one, having been distinguished since the 1970s by fractured friendships, vicious public feuds between members of the Plath and Hughes families, accusations of censorship and arguments over…

Sylvia Plath's late letters revealed the dark secrets of her tragic relationship with Ted Hughes. #SylviaPlath #TedHughes

Dan Chiasson on a recently published volume of Plath’s correspondence, which is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet’s legacy.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she studied at Smith College and Newnham Co...

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Ted Hughes with Frieda and Nicholas, an undated photograph

... first ever television interview, she said she deplored the judgment of "outsiders" who mistakenly believed they had an insight into her family's life.

dated 1956