Editing Robert Frost (section)

===Personal life===
[[File:Robert Frost's Grave.JPG|thumb|upright=1|The Frost family grave in Bennington Old Cemetery]]
Frost's personal life was plagued by grief and loss. In 1885, when he was 11, his father died of [[tuberculosis]], leaving the family with just eight dollars. Frost's mother died of [[cancer]] in 1900. In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later. Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.<ref name = Frost/>

Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliott (1896–1900, died of [[cholera]]); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of [[puerperal fever]] after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just one day after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father. Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed [[breast cancer]] in 1937 and died of [[heart failure]] in 1938.<ref name="Frost">{{cite book |last=Frost |first=Robert |editor1-last=Poirier |editor1-first=Richard |editor2-last=Richardson |editor2-first=Mark |title=Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays |series=The Library of America |volume=81 |location=New York |publisher=Library of America |year=1995 |isbn=1-883011-06-X |url=https://archive.org/details/collectedpoemspr00fros }}</ref>