10. Plath’s first child was born in 1960, but this was far from a happy time for her as her marriage started to fall apart
At the very end of 1959, Hughes and Plath moved back to London. The flat the couple shared in Primrose Hill, in the north of the city, is today marked by a blue heritage plaque and many literary tourists still visit every year. It should have been a happy time for Plath. She had her first child, a daughter she named Frida, in April of 1960. Later that year, her first collection of poems, entitled Colossus, was published. However, her marriage was the source of much pain and drove her to the point of suicide.
