Letters from Sylvia Plath to her former therapist Ruth Barnhouse contain allegations of domestic abuse by Ted Hughes, it has been reported. The unpublished correspondence about one of literature's most notorious relationships claim that Hughes beat Plath two days before she miscarried her second child, and that he told her that he wished her dead, The Guardian reports. The two accusations are apparently just some of the allegations that appear in the letters, which were written between 18 February 1960 and 4 February 1963, a week before Plath took her own life.

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