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Assia Esther Wevill (née Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German-Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes.
The excruciatingly painful end of this fascinating biography – Assia Wevill would gas herself and Shura, her daughter by Ted Hughes, to death – overshadows everything we can learn about...
6 gru 2021 · Six years later, Wevill also killed herself—and her four-year-old daughter with Hughes, Shura. In the public memory, these unspeakable events have affixed Wevill in permanent relation to one of modern literature’s most infamous marriages.
Assia Esther Wevill was a Jewish poet and literary translator born in Berlin, Germany. She published poetry under her maiden name, Assia Gutmann, and she translated the Hebrew poetry of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai into English.
A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill. 'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of...
2 mar 2007 · In 1969, having failed to pin down the sexually roving Hughes, Wevill killed herself in a copycat suicide that mimicked Plath’s except for one awful detail.
4 cze 2014 · A lover of unreason, the first biography of Assia Wevill, views afresh the Plath-Hughes marriage with a keen, revisionary eye, and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her...
