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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.
Assia Wevill is remembered as the mistress who came between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Was she more than that? By Emily Cooke. Art by Julia Rothman.
Assia Esther Wevill was a Jewish poet and literary translator born in Berlin, Germany. She published poetry under her maiden name, Assia Gutmann, and she translated the Hebrew poetry of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai into English.
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 ...
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.
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...
Jul 27, 2022 · Increasingly known as more than Ted Hughes’s girlfriend or Sylvia Plath’s rival, Assia Wevill emerges as an important conduit for literary production in the mid-twentieth century.
Jun 4, 2014 · This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a...
Koren and Negev researched Assia Wevill's life for over fifteen years, unearthing a mass of personal documents, including her diaries and letters, and interviewed all the key...
The collection contains letters, manuscripts, poems, drawings, photographs, and miscellaneous documents relating to Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill.
