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Gutmann and Steele divorced in 1949 [5] and she married Lipsey in 1952. [2] In 1956, on a ship to London, she met the 21-year-old Canadian poet David Wevill. They began an affair and Gutmann divorced Lipsey; she and Wevill married in 1960. [6]
6 gru 2021 · Her marriage to her second husband, Richard Lipsey, who later became a noted economist, fell apart when she met David Wevill, a poet seven years her junior, on a ship to England. For a while, Lipsey tolerated the affair, not without torment.
Photos of Assia Wevill, a German-born woman who had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself and her four-year-old daughter by use of a gas oven.
Wevill emigrated from Berlin to British Palestine with her family in the 1930s to escape the rise of Nazism. In the early 1960s, Wevill and British poet Ted Hughes had a relationship, which contributed to Hughes’s separation from his then-wife, American poet Sylvia Plath.
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...
Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse: the exquisitely beautiful Assia Wevill inspired or provoked many epithets in the course of three marriages and in pursuit of a destiny that took her from...
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...
