Today marks the 58th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death! RIP! &nb
Today marks the 58th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death! RIP! Sylvia Plath27 October 1932 Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA -11 February 1963, Primrose Hill, London, England, United Kingdom***“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle-age.”-–The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, entry for “NOVEMBER 7, 1959: Saturday”***58th years ago today:Sylvia Plath commited suicide on Monday, 11 February 1963 at approximately 4:30 a.m. in her appartment at 23 Fitzroy Road, near Primrose Hill, London, where she moved in with her two children in December 1962 after separating from Ted Hughes; a house William Butler Yeats used to live in from 1867 till 1873. She was 30 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 1 day old. Her death certificate states that the cause of her death was “Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (domestic gas) whilst suffering from depression. Did kill herself”. She left some bread and milk in her children’s (Frieda, almost 3 and Nicholas, 1 year old) room, opened their window and sealed their door off with tape to prevent the gas from entering. She also sealed the kitchen door with wet towels.Sylvia Plath’s dead body was discovered less than five hours later. Her children were unharmed. Jillian Becker wrote in her memoir Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath that “According to Mr. Goodchild, a police officer attached to the coroner’s office … [Plath] had thrust her head far into the gas oven… [and] had really meant to die.”Sylvia Plath is buried in Heptonstall’s parish churchyard of St Thomas the Apostle, the new St Thomas á Becket’s churchyard; near Ted Hughes’ birthplace Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, England.***Image Source: -- source link
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