They say that Sylvia Plath was bipolar and Ted Hughes was a major prick. Obviously, being a poet and a mother and a wife is more than enough to make any woman bipolar. Never mind that Sylvia Plath lived in the 1950s. If you want to be depressed, have a look at some of the online photos of the couple . . photos depicting Ted Hughes as Poet and Sylvia Plath as Poet's wife.
At any rate, it must have been a very sad life for Nicholas Hughes. . very sad to know that your mom left her suicide note on your pram and gassed herself while you were a baby sleeping in the next room.
In those days, it was preached 24/7 by church and state that all women must be wives and mothers. Has that changed?
The son of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has killed himself, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept, according to a report today. Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself at home in Alaska after a battle with depression, his sister Frieda said in a statement to the Times newspaper.
. . The news of his death adds to the tragic history of the family. His mother, Sylvia Plath, was separated from Ted Hughes when she killed herself by breathing in fumes from the kitchen oven in February 1963. She prevented the fumes from seeping into her children's room by sealing the door with towels.
Six years later, Ted Hughes suffered another loss when his mistress gassed herself and their daughter in an apparent copycat suicide. He died in 1998, the year he published Birthday Letters, a series of 88 poems examining his life with Plath and his reactions to her death.
Poet Plath's son 'takes own life'
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