![]() ![]() ![]() They had been married for over a year, but their London wedding had been a secret. On July 13, 1957, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes arrived in Cape Cod for their second honeymoon. Although her time on Cape Cod was marked by professional setbacks, self-doubt, and marital tension, she managed to find the inspiration for one of her finest poems, “Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor,” and sketch the outline of her best-selling novel, The Bell Jar. Her efforts were unsuccessful, but the summer itself marked an important creative point in Plath’s life. Plath had not published a story in five years, and she hoped to use this uninterrupted time to write new fiction that would impress editors at women’s magazines like Mademoiselle and Ladies’ Home Journal. In 1957, Plath and Hughes left England for Massachusetts, where they planned to spend the summer writing on Cape Cod before Plath took up a teaching position at Smith College. Hughes left Plath for another woman in 1962 suffering from depression, Plath took her own life in 1963. But what began as a Shakespearean “marriage of true minds” ended in tragedy. They were both ambitious, and hoped to become the leading poets of their generation. ![]() ![]() In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a whirlwind courtship. Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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