Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes continued throughout the rest of his life to be frequently unfaithful to his primary relationship, which has in turn made difficulties for researchers. Carol Hughes , his widow, withdrew authorization from Jonathan Bate...

SP and Ted Hughes attended a writers' retreat in Yaddo, Saratoga Springs.

At the time of her death SP had completed a substantial portion of a novel she had tentatively titled Double Exposure. The novel portrayed the deceitful relationship of, to all outward appearances, a...

SP and Ted Hughes moved from Boston back to a small flat in London; Sylvia was pregnant.

Hughes was pressured to publish SP 's work shortly after her death. Exercising his copyright control as literary executor, he omitted fourteen of the forty-one poems which Plath had prepared in a collection she had...

SP 's daughter, Frieda Rebecca , was born at home in the flat which she and Ted Hughes occupied in London.

An American edition with further selections appeared in 1979.Ted Hughes wrote the introduction to the US edition, in which he discussed Plath's prose writing. The still-life graphic artist in her was loyal...

SP 's son, Nicholas Farrar Hughes , was born at home in Plath's and Hughes 's house, Court Green in Devon, and named after the seventeenth-century Nicholas Ferrar , whom Ted Hughes claimed as...

Intimate or upsetting passages were censored by Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn Hughes . Ted Hughes has described Plath's journal writing as generally negative self-castigation, or a means of rallying her determination to get...

SP and Ted Hughes moved from London to North Tawton in Devon: to Court Green, a large house standing on three acres of land.

Of the journals for the last two years of Plath's life, her husband destroyed one part. He said later that he wanted to protect their children, thinking of forgetfulness as essential to survival. The...

David and Assia Wevill , a Canadian poet and his wife who had rented SP 's and Ted Hughes 's former flat in London, visited them for a weekend in Devon.

In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....

During a visit to SP by her mother , Ted Hughes divided his time between Devon and London, between Sylvia and Assia . He and Plath had all but separated.

SP saw a lawyer about suing Ted Hughes for divorce.