Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobi
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Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, Cambridge
Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar
Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes's home from 1959
Ted Hughes
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Edward James Hughes was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
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…a new style of poetry dubbed confessional for its use of personal experience and its tendency to use a direct form of address. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 in London. In 1957, they briefly moved to the United States, but moved back to England in the winter of 1959. They had two children, Frieda and…
Hughes c. 1977
Hughes's birthplace in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank – an 18th-century mill-owner's house, once Hughes's home
Lumb Bank in the Calder Valley