Olywn Hughes papers, 1951-1997.

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Olywn Hughes papers, 1951-1997.

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The collection consists of primarily letters from Ted Hughes to Olwyn Hughes from 1951 to 1997, and to his parents from 1954 to 1960. There are brief messages from Sylvia Plath appended to six of these letters. The letters were written while Hughes was an undergraduate from 1951-1954 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, after his graduation, when he was working various odd jobs around London, while he was married to Sylvia Plath, and shortly after her death in 1963. The topics include discussions of his activities during his undergraduate years, his life with Sylvia Plath and their children Frieda and Nicholas, and his career including teaching and writing. The letters often include astrological charts, sketches, and drafts of poems. The collection also includes the unpublished poem "For Olwyn Each Evening," Hughes's translation of Phedre by Jean Racine, a portrait of Ted Hughes and a self-portrait drawn by Assia Wevill, and photographs.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes, and 2 oversized papers (OP))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233075

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998

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Assia Wevill was born Assia Gutman on May 15, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, Lisa, was a German Protestant, and her father, Lonya, was a Russian Jew. In the late 1930s, the family fled to Tel Aviv to escape the Nazis. Wevill first married John Steel in London in 1946, and from there emigrated to Canada, sending visas to her family in Israel. In Vancouver, she met her second husband, Richard Lipsey, whom she divorced in 1960 to marry her third husband, David Wevill. The Wevills met Ted Hug...

Pembroke College (University of Cambridge)

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Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963

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Plath (1932-1963) was educated at Smith College (A.B., 1955) and Newnham College, Cambridge University (A.B., 1957). She married Ted Hughes in 1956 and taught English at Smith College, 1957-1958. Plath and Hughes returned to England in Dec. 1959 and separated in 1962. In her lifetime she published two books: The Colossus and other poems (1960) and The bell jar (1963). On Feb. 11, 1963 she committed suicide in London. Her Ariel poems were edited by Hughes and published in 1965. From t...

Hughes, Olywn.

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Olwyn Marguerite Hughes, the sister of Ted Hughes, was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, on August 26, 1928. When the family moved, she attended Mexborough Grammar School and went on to London University to read English literature, graduating in 1950. She worked briefly as an editor of the magazine of the Coal Utilization Research Association near London, before moving to Paris in 1952. There she had various secretarial jobs with embassies and international organizations until she joined Martonpla...