r/sylviaplath

I just finished reading the bell jar and went down a rabbit hole because I wanted to find out what happened in Plath's life, I knew about her death through popular culture but in an effort to know more, I found out that this man called Ted Hughes:

1. Cheated on Sylvia with a married woman
2. Hit her and caused her miscarriage (as she wrote in her letters to her therapist)
3. Abandoned their two kids and left Sylvia alone in London to pursue this married woman
4. Tried to blame the anti-depressants prescribed by Sylvia's doctor to remove blame from himself for her death
5. Didn't even marry the woman he cheated on Sylvia with, had a child with her, moved her to the house he bought WITH SYLVIA, where this new woman used HER things
6. Treated the new woman like a housekeeper, and surprise surprise, CHEATED ON HER TWICE, once with a married woman and once with a nurse 20 years younger than him
7. This new woman also k worded herself and her 4-year old kid with Hughes as she was unhappy of the way he treated her and refused to marry her.
8. His son with Sylvia, also k worded himself.

I'm sorry, but I genuinely despise this philandering, evil, demon of a man. The amount of pain and violence he unleashed on the ecosystem around him is enraging me. I hope he is currently burning in hell. Apologies if I come across as too emotional, but this triggered me. He was an awful human being.

I bought for my birthday the diaries of Sylvia (Spanish edition) but I wanted to know how you read it, as a whole? A page a day? Like a book? I want to experience the diaries without feeling like is another book if that makes sense.

hi, i started reading her journal and had read bell jar before but now i cant..stop? although i have friends but no close friends or siblings , i feel like her journal is best friend there is no one i haven’t related to more, and im always sad- and i read her journals and feel so comfortable that someone felt the same way, im in no way ‘sucidal’, but have a lot of things going on, im also very isolated and quiet so this book- i feel crazy but i just start talking to her in my head, like shes a friend, and its just..sad, i know, i can only say this here, but im very worried about this now, because i feel like such a looser- and its all because of a book.

I came across this article and wondered if anyone had got the book yet?

Does anybody know what happened to Sappho?

I finished reading the unabridged journals of sylvia plath today (wonderful, profound book) and one of the many things i was left curious about was the cat. I know it’s not particularly important but i figured it was worth asking incase it was mentioned in one of the many books regarding sylvia plath and her life that i haven’t gotten to yet.