Evening Standard - London, March 27th, 2000
DAVID SEXTON investigates the latest developments in the saga of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath IN 1940, when she was eight, Sylvia Plath's domineering father, Otto died from undiagnosed diabetes. She never got over it. She never accepted his death or forgave her mother. In 1953, when she was 20, Plath attempted to commit suicide, taking an overdose in the crawl space under her family house. She survived only because she had swallowed so many pills that she vomited. She was not found for three days. Her face thereafter bore the scar of the concrete she had lain on. She was given shock therapy. ...
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