July 9, 1999
Archive Offers a New Look at the Lives of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
In the photograph, the sky is the cloudless, pastel blue of early spring. The woman holds her baby son in her arms and smiles down at her daughter, who clutches a fistful of yellow daffodils.
The woman is Ted Hughes's first wife, Sylvia Plath, the poet who committed suicide in 1963, at the age of 30, after setting out bread and milk for her children's breakfast.
The photograph is one bright diamond in the trove of materials --
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