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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.
Following the death of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, Ted Hughes' mistress Assia Wevill tragically killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Shura in their London home.
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.
Assia Wevill is remembered as the mistress who came between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Was she more than that? BY Emily Cooke
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 ...
Letters, manuscripts, poems, drawings, photographs, and miscellaneous documents relating to English poet Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill.
Daniel Simpson as Ted Hughes in Ann Henning Jocelyn's Doonreagan. Doonreagan was first performed at Jermyn Street Theatre London in 2013 and explores the passionate but doomed relationship between Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill during their spell in Connemara; their efforts to establish a common ground free from the towering shadow of Sylvia Plath ...