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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.
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.
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.
On 23 March 1969, six years after Plath's suicide, Assia Wevill took her own life by the same method: asphyxiation from a gas stove. Wevill also killed her child, Alexandra Tatiana Elise (nicknamed Shura), the four-year-old daughter of Hughes, born on 3 March 1965.
22 gru 2015 · Wevill’s suicide in 1969, under circumstances similar to Plath’s (though Shura, Wevill and Hughes’s 4-year-old daughter, died too), intensified the case against him.
10 paź 2015 · The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath, who famously committed suicide following his affair with Assia Wevill.
The Wevills met Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in London in 1961, and Hughes and Wevill began an affair soon thereafter. Their relationship continued after Plath's suicide, and on March 3, 1965, Wevill gave birth to Alexandra Tatiana Eloise, nicknamed "Shura."
