Archive · 6 Sep 2026
Remembering feminist firebrand Robin Morgan, who accused Hughes
Robin Morgan was a writer and activist who strongly supported women’s rights.
She helped lead the second-wave feminist movement.
She protested against the Miss America Pageant.
She also edited a famous 1970 book called Sisterhood is Powerful.
Morgan is widely credited with creating the word “herstory.”
She wrote a poem accusing poet Ted Hughes of responsibility for Sylvia Plath’s death.
Plath had died by suicide in London in 1963.
Morgan died in New York at age 85.
Her death came shortly after Gloria Steinem’s.
Robin Morgan, a pioneer of second-wave feminism, died in New York at age 85.
She died days after fellow activist Gloria Steinem.
Morgan led protests against the Miss America Pageant.
She edited the 1970 feminist anthology Sisterhood is Powerful.
In her 1972 poem Arraignment, she accused Ted Hughes of Sylvia Plath’s “murder.”
- Who
- Robin Morgan, a feminist writer and activist, died at age 85.
- What
- Morgan’s death was reported in an obituary remembering her activism, writing and accusation against Ted Hughes.
- When
- She died on Saturday, days after Gloria Steinem’s death; the article does not provide a calendar date.
- Where
- New York; the article says Sylvia Plath died in London in 1963.
- Why
- The article does not state the cause of Morgan’s death.
- Age at death
- 85
- Location of death
- New York
- Feminist work
- A pioneer of second-wave feminism
- Major protest
- Protests against the Miss America Pageant
- Edited anthology
- Sisterhood is Powerful, published in 1970
- Poem
- Arraignment, published in 1972
- Credited term
- “Herstory”