The son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Nicholas, who was only about a year old when Sylvia committed suicide, has committed suicide himself- he hanged himself last week at his home in Alaska after sufferring from depression. (These are my words, not the link, but below is a link which reports it).
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece
This is so sad.....It is good that Ted Hughes passed away some years ago and didn't have to endure this one too, as not only did Sylvia commit suicide, about 4 years later, so did the woman he left Plath for, who not only gassed herself the same way Plath did, she also killed their 4 year old daughter too, believing that the child would not be as accepted and loved in the Hughes family as his and Plath's 2 biological children were (Frieda, and Nicholas). I think it was moreso Ted's parents and other relatives that were not accepting of Assia than Ted himself but I don't know, for some reason, Assia decided to end her life in a copy of the way Sylvia did probably a final act of expressing an inability to continue to live in her shadow, and forever "the mistress".
I guess this won't mean much to those who don't know who Sylvia Plath of Ted Hughes were. But it is devastating news to me. RIP Nicholas....(he had been a marine biology professor in Alaska for a long time until recently when he left his post to work from home).
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece
This is so sad.....It is good that Ted Hughes passed away some years ago and didn't have to endure this one too, as not only did Sylvia commit suicide, about 4 years later, so did the woman he left Plath for, who not only gassed herself the same way Plath did, she also killed their 4 year old daughter too, believing that the child would not be as accepted and loved in the Hughes family as his and Plath's 2 biological children were (Frieda, and Nicholas). I think it was moreso Ted's parents and other relatives that were not accepting of Assia than Ted himself but I don't know, for some reason, Assia decided to end her life in a copy of the way Sylvia did probably a final act of expressing an inability to continue to live in her shadow, and forever "the mistress".
I guess this won't mean much to those who don't know who Sylvia Plath of Ted Hughes were. But it is devastating news to me. RIP Nicholas....(he had been a marine biology professor in Alaska for a long time until recently when he left his post to work from home).