The painter and poet Frieda Hughes, 54, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, has decided to train as a bereavement counsellor following a series of losses - her mother killing herself, her ...

On February 11, 1963, following a long struggle with depression, Sylvia Plath died by suicide in her London home at the age ...

The daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Frieda Hughes is a painter and writer. She studied at Central Saint Martins - graduating with a BA (Hons) in 1988 - and has had numerous exhibitions.

Anything Frieda Hughes writes is of interest. As the child of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, she immediately drops us into the fateful family life of two of the 20th Century’s most influential poets.

In the letter to Beuscher, Plath writes that Hughes beat her after she had torn up some of his writings—she was furious that he was late to take over the care of Frieda so that Plath could go to ...

Sylvia Plath tried to slit her own throat when she was ... He had access to previously unseen letters her mother Aurelia wrote to the poet's two children Frieda and Nicholas, who hardly knew Plath.

Whose Plath is it anyway? England's longest-running literary soap opera enters a new chapter, as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter wages war against ghouls, obsessives and the makers of ...

In her new memoir, “George,” Frieda Hughes rarely mentions her famous parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. But their absence — in life and art — underscores this poignant and often funny ...

Key Background Plath is remembered for her dark poetry and frank depiction of mental illness in her quasi-autobiographical work, including the novel The Bell Jar.Plath was born in 1932 in Boston ...

Given Frieda’s suggestion that violence might be an understandable reaction to the ripping up of her father’s papers, it is ironic that we cannot consult all of Plath’s journals, where she ...

In the letter to Beuscher, Plath writes that Hughes beat her after she had torn up some of his writings—she was furious that he was late to take over the care of Frieda so that Plath could go to ...