How did Sylvia Plath kill herself?

Sylvia was very distraught. It was a cold winter in London. One of the coldest the city had seen in a long while. The city would cut electricity at night sometimes to “bolster the national character”. read more

Sylvia Plath at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Works by or about Sylvia Plath in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Works by Sylvia Plath at Faded Page (Canada) Peter K. Steinberg's A celebration, this is; Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath collection at University of Victoria, Special Collections; Plath profile from American Academy of Poets; BBC profile and video. BBC archive. read more

In a remarkable, hitherto unknown, poem called “Three Funerals”, Ted wrote of how he was haunted by the memory of Sylvia walking through the snow to a telephone box on the last night of her life, and equally haunted by his last telephone conversation with Wevill, who six years later killed herself in the same way as Sylvia. read more