
“Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you”
I love this excerpt from a letter Ted Hughes wrote to his twenty-four year old son, Nicholas. As we know, Ted Hughes was married to the brilliant Boston native, Sylvia Plath, and had two children with her before her death in 1963. Their relationship became a point of contention, specifically amongst feminist American fans, and much is unknown about their final days together. (Did you know he destroyed her final – and probably most revealing – journal in an “effort […]
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