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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.
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.
Nov 9, 2022 · In 1963, Assia Wevill was 36 years old, her beauty quite literally famous in cosmopolitan London. Like Hughes, she was dark, with almost-black hair that made her light-colored eyes jump from her face. Photographs of Wevill astonish those unfamiliar, or just learning, this terrible story—some audibly gasp.
- Emily Van Duyne
Dec 5, 2021 · Assia Wevill is remembered as the mistress who came between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Was she more than that? BY Emily Cooke
On March 23, 1969, feeling abandoned by Hughes and consumed by despair and disillusion, Assia Gutmann swallowed a handful of sleeping pills, gathered up the 4 year-old Shura, and turned on the gas stove in the kitchen of her flat in Clapham Common (3, Okeover Manor), London.
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Mar 2, 2007 · The latest addition to the endless saga of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath comes as a biography of Assia Wevill, the woman who administered the coup de grâce to the Plath/Hughes marriage when she...