Ted Hughes

The Plath legacy

 Nicholas Hughes, son of Sylvia Plath - the late poetess, committed suicide a month ago. As we all know, Syvia Plath too had attempted committing suicide several times in her life. At the end of one such episode, she was admitted in an institution where she was given electroconvulsive therapy. On the long term, though, it didn't help of course, and she took her own life on February 11, 1963. Some people say that her husband, Ted Hughes, who had left her for another woman a year before Sylvia died, was abusive towards her. We have no way of knowing if that was true.

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