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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.
27 mar 2019 · Following the death of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, Ted Hughes' mistress Assia Wevill tragically killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Shura in their London home.
6 gru 2021 · Wevill, a secretary-turned-copywriter, was deprived, or perhaps deprived herself, of the liberty of being nobody by colliding, in 1961, with Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, two of poetry’s eternal somebodies. Within months of that meeting, Hughes left Plath, apparently for Wevill, though family and biographers still debate his reasons.
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 this ...
The words are uttered by Ellen, a thin disguise of the real woman (and Weldon’s friend) Assia Gutmann Wevill, whose affair with Ted Hughes was the catalyst – angrier critics would say the direct cause – of the suicide of his wife, Sylvia Plath.
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. While Plath had kept her two...
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...
