I paid for the gas that killed her Elizabeth Sigmund was Sylvia Plath's confidante and 'earth mother'. As a new film about the poet opens, she tells Marianne Macdonald about the shocking events she witnessed before - and after - Plath's suicide

The Sunday Telegraph London | January 18, 2004| | Copyright

`Lovely, isn't it?" Elizabeth Sigmund says. I am looking at a framed picture of her with Gwyneth Paltrow that hangs in her living- room - a bizarre touch of Hollywood glamour in this rented stone cottage in Cornwall.

What was this elderly, arthritic lady doing on the set of a new film about Sylvia Plath? A glance around the room yields more Plath memorabilia: a newspaper is folded to show an article about the American poet, whose marriage to Ted Hughes and suicide at the age of 30 has generated endless speculation. On the coffee table, lies a dated-looking hardback of Plath's novel The Bell ...

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