FOLLOWING the death of his estranged wife and author of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes’ mistress Assia Wevill tragically ended her own life and killed their four-year-old daughter Shura. Here’s what we know about the tragedy. Who was Assia Wevill? Assia Wevill was born on May 15, 1927 to a Jewish father and German mother. Her family fled from Nazi Germany at the beginning of WW2 and emigrated to Palestine, where she met her first husband, Sergeant John Steele. Biographers Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev suggest her first marriage was essentially a loveless relationship. Nonetheless, in 1946, Wevill and her husband moved to London, before setting off to Canada. There, she attended the University of British Columbia and met her second husband, Richard Lipsey. While on a ship to London in 1956, she met 21-year-old poet David Wevill – with whom she began an affair. She later divorced Lipsey and married Wevill in 1960. What was her relationship with Ted Hughes? After moving to London permanently, Assia met English poet and children’s writer, Ted Hughes, who was at the time married to Sylvia Plath. Plath noted the pair’s chemistry and soon after, Wevill and Hughes began their affair. At the… Read full this story
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