Feminists 'abused' poet

05 October 2015 - 02:09
By ©The Sunday Telegraph

Feminists who exploited the death of Sylvia Plath to accuse her husband, English poet Ted Hughes, of mistreating her committed an "abuse" and a "horrible form of theft", the couple's daughter has said. Frieda Hughes said she had been "appalled" by the appropriation of the tragedy to suit a cause.In a BBC documentary, Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death , poet Hughes said she deplored the judgment of "outsiders" who mistakenly believed they had an insight into her family's life.

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