“And I am married to a poet. We came together in that church of the chimney sweeps with nothing but love & hope & our own selves: Ted in his old black corduroy jacket & me in mother’s gift of a pink knit dress. Pink rose & black tie. An empty church in watery yellow-gray light of rainy London. Outside, the crowd of thick-ankled tweed-coated mothers & pale, jabbering children waiting for the bus to take them on a church outing to the Zoo.
And here I am: Mrs. Hughes. And wife of a published poet.”
–from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Cambridge Diary, Monday afternoon: February 25 1957
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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes first met on 25 February 1956 at party in Cambridge, England. They
married only four months later on 16 June 1956 at St George the Martyr,
Holborn, Camden, London in honor of Bloomsday with Plath‘s mother
Aurelia being the only wedding guest.
They have been married for six years and four months until Plath commited suicide on 11 February 1963.
Even though they have been separated for five months since September 1962, they never got a divorce.
Today would have been their 64th anniversary, if they were alive and stayed together.
Picture:
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes photographed by
by Lettice Ramsey
at Ramsey & Muspratt in Cambridge, England in 1956. This photo is one in a series of severeal pictures taken half a year later as offical Plath and Huges wedding photos.
