Frida Hughes and Ted Hughes

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Hughes met her husband at a celebration of his poetry. They married in 1956, had their first child in 1960 and then another later. Her children are both like her - they're acclaimed in their own right. Hughes: "I'm trying to come up with a gill pun, but I can't"

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