Ted Hughes widow to write memoirs about marriage to former Poet Laureate Carol Hughes wed the poet in 1970 after the suicides of his first wife, American poet Sylvia Plath and the woman he left her for, Assia Wevill, and they remained married until his death from cancer in 1998. She said she hopes to put down on paper her memories of life with the poet 'while I have full recall and no false memory'. Speaking from the home they had shared in North Tawton, Devon, she said: "I had a wonderful 28 years with Ted and I hope to record them for posterity." Carol, now in her early 60s, was a young nurse when she wed Hughes. His widow said she is supporting a new memoir by Hughes' brother Gerald and said she applauds him for not making a judgment on the two tragedies as many biographers have done in the past. She said: "The people who wrote about Ted were not flies on the wall, even if they write as if though they were. Nobody really knows what goes on between two people. She said her late husband had a 'very happy and full life' despite the tragedies that dogged him.