14. Plath was bowled over by Ted Hughes and the pair of poets decided to get married just 4 months after they first met
Just as she was when she met Hughes that first night, Plath recalled she was “very, very beautifully drunk” when she agreed to be his wife. The pair had been together for just 4 months. But it could have all been so different. Just before the proposal, Plath went to Paris to try and win Richard Sassoon back. He fled the city when he learned his ex was coming! According to several of Plath’s biographers, this brutal rejection essentially pushed her into the arms of Hughes.
