9. Did Hughes abuse his wife physically as well as emotionally? Letters written by the poet suggest he did
In 2017, researchers uncovered previously unseen letters from Plath, most of them written to her therapist while she was living in Primrose Hill. In them, she revealed that Hughes would regularly beat her. What’s more, the Englishman also verbally and psychologically bullied his American wife. Plath said she believed Hughes wanted her dead. Things got even worse when Plath found out that Hughes had been having an affair with their friend Assia Wevill. In the same letters, she revealed that she crashed her car on purpose, her second failed suicide attempt.
