After ten years of trying, Plath’s poems “Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor” and “Nocturne” were accepted by The New Yorker. Ted and Sylvia spend the summer travelling. In Yellowstone park, the couple was woken by a bear who broke into their car and ransacked the food. This later was the inspiration to her story “The Fifty-ninth Bear.” In December, Plath discovered she was pregnant and her and Ted sailed back to England. On April 1st, Plath gave birth to a baby girl, whom she named Frieda. Aurelia went to London to watch her granddaughter while Ted and Sylvia went to France. Just before moving to Devon, in September, Sylvia announced she was pregnant again. On January 17, 1962, she gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Nicholas. One morning,
