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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.
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- Assia Esther Gutmann, 15 May 1927, Berlin, Germany
Apr 23, 1999 · Thu 22 Apr 1999 20.56 EDT. In 1963, the poet Sylvia Plath, distraught at the break-up of her marriage to Ted Hughes, committed suicide. Six years later, Hughes faced more tragedy when his mistress...
A review of a book that collects the letters and journals of Assia Wevill, the mistress of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The reviewer explores the contrasts between Wevill and Plath, her beauty, her writing, and her role in their lives and deaths.
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...
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Oct 19, 2006 · Assia Wevill in 1968. Books. This article is more than 17 years old. Written out of history. Ted Hughes's wife, Sylvia Plath, famously killed herself. But what of his mistress, who four years...
Jul 8, 2022 · The previously unseen poems were written shortly after the poet’s partner, Assia Wevill, killed herself and their daughter, Shura, in 1969, six years after the suicide of Hughes’s first wife...
Jan 8, 2015 · By The Week Staff. last updated 8 January 2015. Assia Wevill was 35 and on her third husband when Ted Hughes, the future British poet laureate, visited her London advertising firm in June 1962...
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