Poet Sylvia Plath's Son Commits Suicide

[rostasi]

Poet Sylvia Plath's Son Commits Suicide

"The son of poet Sylvia Plath followed in his famous mother's tragic footsteps by committing suicide.

Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself at his home in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Monday, March 16,

the Associated Press reports a week later.

His death comes 46 years after his mother committed suicide and

nearly 40 years after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same..."

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[ValerieB]

oh, my Lord!! just horrendous. i hope much better for the daughter i seem to remember Plath having.

[Chalupa]

This link has a bit more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090323/ap_on_.../obit_hughes_12

The immediate cause of her breakup with Hughes was his affair with Assia Wevill. Plath's legacy haunted her husband, hounded for years by women who believed he was responsible for her suicide and by a procession of biographers and fans obsessed with the brief, impassioned and tragic marriage between the two poets.

Ted Hughes relived the tragedy not only through the constant reminders of Plath, but also through the suicide of Wevill, his second wife, who in March 1969 killed herself and their 4-year-old daughter. [/i]

Holy crap. Both of Ted Hughes wives committed suicide??

[connoisseur series500]

I was just reading this online. Sad, sad, sad.