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	Assia Wevill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assia Wevill (May 15, 1927 - March 29, 1969) was born in Berlin, of German, Russian, and Jewish descent.
		Wevill’s third husband was the Canadian poet David Wevill.
		Wevill was haunted by Plath's memory; she even began using things that had once belonged to the poet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assia_Wevill (321 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Wevill then dragged a bed into the kitchen, shut and sealed the door and window, dissolved sleeping tablets in a glass of water and gave the drink to her daughter.
		Assia, who also wrote poetry, believed she was ostracised by many of Hughes's family and friends and felt her verse was not taken seriously.
		Assia, who was working as an advertising copywriter, telephoned him in Devon and, on one occasion, when the amorous talk was over, Plath furiously pulled the wires out of the wall.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3852308,00.html (2987 words)

	Assia Wevill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Assia Wevill (1927 - March 29, 1969) was born in Berlin, of German, Russian, and Jewish descent.
		Wevill was haunted by Plath’s ghost; she even began using things that had once belonged to the poet.
		On March 3, 1965, Wevill gave birth Alexandra Tatiana Eloise, nicknamed "Shura." However, she began becoming anxious and believed that Hughes would leave her.
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Assia_Wevill (321 words)

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		I heard no further mention of Assia until 1967, when she came to live at Court Green with Shura, the child she had subsequently had with Ted, who was then two years old.
		He said that Assia was very depressed, as she had made a special Russian Christmas cake, and no one was coming to eat it with them.
		In March 1969, Assia dragged a bed into the kitchen of her Clapham flat, dissolved sleeping tablets in a glass of water and gave the drink to her daughter before draining the rest herself.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3857472,00.html (1351 words)

	The biography of Ted Hughes, by Elaine Feinstein
		Hughes and Assia were left in a private hell, struggling to come to terms with their parts in the tragedy while raising Frieda and Nicholas, as well as Shura, Hughes and Assia's infant daughter.
		Hughes and Assia's love did not survive the strain, and in 1969 Assia, in a grotesque replay of Plath's suicide, gassed herself and her daughter to death.
		Assia was a beautiful woman with huge eyes and "the passport of Europe on her face", as Sylvia later described her to a friend.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /161101.html (16814 words)

	Ted Hughes - Devon - Assia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Assia was born Assia Gutman in Germany to a Jewish physician of Russian origin and a German Protestant mother.
		Assia had not taken the breakdown of her second marriage calmly, and had exacted a stylish revenge.
		Alarmed, Assia had sent back a message to say she was in a meeting, so he had left the note, which Assia showed Suzette.
	www.elainefeinstein.com /TedHughes-Devon.shtml (1466 words)

	Assia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		ASSIA was founded in 1994 by a team of professionals with several years of experience in business...
		Assia, the daughter of Leon and Chaja Levinski, lived with her parents and younger brother Monia in a small village in Lithuania.
		Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born August 4, 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmaker.
	socialscienceindex.foulindex.com /assia (586 words)

	Sylvia Plath Forum: April 2004
		Interestingly, Assia told her close friend Suzette Macedo that she was repelled by Hughes after that initial encounter, expecting a "romantic interlude" and being met instead with a "violent and animal" passion that made her go "quite cold".
		While I may not agree with your take on Assia Wevill and what I anticipate will be a sympathetic portrayal of her, I am delighted and grateful that you have devoted such a long amount of time to researching her life history and providing a different perspective on her story.
		That Assia was also charming, caring, generous, and a good friend to many is no doubt equally true, and I have no doubt that those who have spoken warmly of her had good reason to....flaws are, after all, just one part of a human personality.
	www.sylviaplathforum.com /archives/53.html (12068 words)

	I paid for the gas that killed Sylvia Plath - www.theage.com.au
		And it was Elizabeth to whom Wevill sent the gas bill for the period covering Plath's suicide at her London maisonette.
		Within a week of Plath's suicide, Hughes and Assia had moved into Plath's flat in Primrose Hill and were even eating in the kitchen where she had gassed herself.
		She said, 'You know Mrs Wevill's living here?' I said, 'In this flat?' She said, 'Yes, and she's having an operation - one of those.' I said, 'You mean an abortion?' She said, 'Yes, Mr Hughes has taken her to hospital.' They came back and Assia went up to Sylvia's bed.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/29/1075340777006.html (1497 words)

	Books \| Keeper of a stubborn faith
		The latest theory - that Plath committed suicide after discovering Assia Wevill was pregnant with Ted's child - is one she rightly regards with suspicion.
		Assia, thrice married, still had a husband at the time, and her relationship with Ted, of which his parents strongly disapproved, was never likely to survive its torrid origins.
		His various liaisons around the time of Assia's death and afterwards border on the manic: as he told a friend, his entanglements grew two heads whenever he lopped one.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4285848-99936,00.html (1740 words)

	Ted Hughes: Innocent Victim or Secret Murderer?
		In 1962, the couple decided to separate when Hughes fell for another woman, Assia Wevill, and in 1963, Sylvia Plath committed suicide by means of carbon monoxide poisoning.
		Wevill, Hughes’ mistress, was a German woman who had been involved in three previous marriages.
		It is interesting, however, that Plath committed suicide as a result of her separation with Hughes, which he encouraged while Wevill, his mistress, committed suicide because of his ex-wife’s death and the controversy surrounding that circumstance.
	teachers.henrico.k12.va.us /freeman/guengerich_a/BBL/writers/hughes/hughes.html (2169 words)

	HER HUSBAND - A Marriage, by Diane Middlebrook
		The account of his marital infidelities, especially his affair with Assia Wevill in the early 1960s, is fair-minded and unsparing.
		Assia’s suicide in 1969 mirrors Plath’s death almost exactly: both women killed themselves by placing their heads in gas ovens.
		Acting as literary executor to his late wife, Hughes was obliged to take responsibility for the development of her reputation, but his involvement in new writing projects meant that the publication of her poems, diaries and letters was delayed for years.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /sylvia_plath2.html (9696 words)

	The Flick Chicks Movie Reviews Victoria Alexander - Sylvia
		Hughes was already involved with a woman, Assia Wevill, who, according to the movie, was invited into the Hughes home with her poet husband by Plath.
		Wevill killed their daughter with sleeping pills and then turned on the gas oven.
		Wevill was so angry with Hughes she killed their six year-old daughter Shura before gassing herself.
	www.theflickchicks.com /victoria_alexander_-_sylvia.htm (879 words)

	BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Biography of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, who made his home in Devon
		Hughes was devastated by her death and didn't write poetry for some time afterwards.
		He had a daughter, Shura, with Assia Wevill, but this relationship also ended tragically when Wevill killed herself and four-year-old Shura.
		Wevill took a load of pills - and also gave some to Shura, before turning on the gas stove.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/ted_hughes.shtml (572 words)

	Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In this biography Feinstein argues that they were both flawed geniuses and that the truth about the failure of their marriage must incorporate her fragility and his recklessness.
		Many people, including his friend Al Alvarez, have held Hughes's adultery responsible for Plath's death: it was her discovery of his affair with Assia Wevill that led her to order Hughes out of their Devon home.
		He later had a child with Assia and she also killed herself along with their young daughter.
	home.iae.nl /users/sceav/hgengels/hughes.htm (298 words)

	MRB: Little Fugue : A Novel
		Little Fugue is told from the point of view of Silvia's husband Ted Hughes, his mistress Assia Wevill, and a narrator named Robert, who is looking at the death of Plath from the perspective of his own life experiences in America.
		Ted and Assia stumble through flness days and years after Sylvia's death, with Ted struggling to come to terms with how little he knew of his wife and Assia jealously forging Sylvia's identity.
		The events portrayed in the sections describing Sylvia, Ted and Assia are well grounded in fact and have a sense of quiet desperation that is both emotional and metaphysical in nature.
	www.medical-research-books.com /mrb-books-reviewed/0345454103.html (1254 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: Books In The Mirror: A HARROWING FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF PLATH AND HUGHES
		As Tennant tells it, something hot and primal arced between the young poets, a searing, pre-conscious connection that became Plath’s lifeline until the summer of 1962, when Hughes abandoned her for a new love, the hyper-sensual Assia Wevill.
		Wevill is pregnant with Hughes’ child at the time of Plath’s suicide.
		Tennant makes it clear that Hughes did passionately love Plath, but casual cruelty and infidelities of all sorts punctuated their seven years together, including Hughes’ summer dalliance with a 15-year-old girl, and culminating in the Assia Wevill affair, which pushed a despairing Plath to lay her head in the gas oven.
	www.smmirror.com /VOLUME3/issue12/a_harrowing_fictional.asp (677 words)

	After abortion
		Plath killed herself shortly after learning that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was carrying on an affair with Assia Wevill, and that Assia was pregnant.
		Assia and Hughes aborted that child three weeks after Plath's suicide.
		Two years after Plath's suicide, Assia Wevill and Ted Hughes bore a daughter, Shura.
	afterabortion.blogspot.com /2003/03/axes-after-whose-stroke-wood-rings-and.html (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Little Fugue: a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His Plath-infused account of social and political turmoil in New York from the Columbia riots of 1968 to September 11, 2001, is counterpointed by the story of Ted Hughes and his mistress, Assia Gutmann Wevill.
		Assia, meanwhile, is the half-good poet who covets Plath's identity and ends up sharing her fate.
		The novel's only flaw is the erratic fugue between the masterful Plath/Assia/Ted passages and the sometimes convoluted Robert sections; Robert as character is occasionally subsumed by the character of New York, and the fundamental connection between Plath and her young acolyte is lost.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345454111 (453 words)

	Wevill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Ted Hughes abandoned her for an another woman, Assia Gutmann Wevill, the wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, fantasies of self-destruction took over of Plath's resolution.
		More recently Plath was thought to have destroyed the entire manuscript when she learned of Hughes' affair with Assia Wevill.
		Her depression became expreteme when Hughes meet Assia Wevill, a high class woman.
	daddypoem.quantpoem.com /wevill (542 words)

	.: Print Version :.
		Included are 11 poems he wrote to Plath and over a dozen about Assia Wevill, the woman he left Plath for.
		Disconsolate over her husband's affair with Wevill and at that point tortured by depression, Plath opened the window of the bedroom where her two children, Nicholas, just over 1 year old, and Frieda, not quite 3, were sleeping.
		The fact that Wevill was indeed pregnant then, although barely so, and went on to have an abortion in late March, is one of those pieces of the puzzle that has only recently come to light.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2003/10/28/entertainment/movies/10_22_0313_15_58.prt (1169 words)

	village voice > books > Sylvia and Ted by Emma Tennant by Dodie Bellamy
		The book begins with all three as children, then chronicles the courtship and marriage of Plath and Hughes, their breakup over Wevill, Plath's suicide, and Wevill's suicide and murder of the daughter she bore Hughes.
		Meanwhile Wevill is sailing toward London, in a ship's passage as foreboding as Dracula's.
		We do glimpse Wevill prone, under a nurse's care, suffering in her bloody bed, transformed into Little Red Riding Hood.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0121,bellamy,24902,10.html (783 words)

	Amazon.com: Sylvia and Ted: Books: Emma Tennant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That there was a third party to their tragedy, Hughes's mistress, Assia Wevill, who herself committed suicide, has also been a matter of public record.
		Her psychological insights into Plath's and Wevill's troubled personalities, which at first may seem gratuitously grim, shed light on their early experiences and emotional conditioning, and become more appropriate as Plath, Hughes and Wevill mature.
		(Ironically, Wevill also later killed herself.) Full of portents and omens, the story is a series of oblique passages and lyrical descriptions, all issued in a clipped cadence with edges as jagged as the lives examined.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805066756?v=glance (1748 words)

	Hughes Verses Plath / Troubled poet's husband finally addresses her suicide and their relationship
		When the guilt-ridden Hughes could no longer contemplate a life with her, Wevill killed herself along with their 2-year-old child, pointedly using gas, the same method as Plath had used.
		Yet it also prompts the thought that if Hughes was truly certain -- and such certainty from the vantage point of hindsight is too self-serving for comfort -- that Plath would do away with herself, it makes his abandonment of her and their children even more shameful than most commentators have dared to suggest.
		Wevill isn't named; indeed, such passages, like many in ``Birthday Letters,'' are meaningless to any reader without prior knowledge of the people and the events in question.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/15/RV52841.DTL (1209 words)

	A new myth of Plath, Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hughes, who went on to become England's poet laureate, was the villain of the Plath myth, the cheating spouse whose wayward ways and selfish, masculine ego caused his genius wife to stick her head in a gas oven.
		The fact that Assia Wevill, the woman Hughes left Plath for, killed herself (and their little girl) in the exact same manner six years later didn't help his cause.
		All the famous scenes of this well-documented marriage are here, but Tennant gives us something new: a fascinating portrait of the mysterious "other woman," Assia Wevill.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2001-06-15-plath-hughes.htm (513 words)

	Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And her eventual suicide in 1969 was almost a carbon copy of that of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, six years earlier - except that she also took the life of their four-year-old daughter.
		But in the years since the death of Assia Wevill, the tragic story of her relationship with the late Poet Laureate, who died in 1998, has often been relegated to little more than a footnote to the saga of Hughes and Plath.
		A year after her death, Hughes dedicated his book Crow to the memory of Assia and Shura, their daughter, although few knew who they were.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/news/article349557.ece (414 words)

	DuchovnyForum.com - Review: Sylvia (spoilers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She comes to feel like "a negative of a person," as she puts it, as she pursues a fatiguing and destitute life in a small Primrose Hill flat once occupied by Yeats, without heat or phone, friendless and far from family.
		Spurned in her advances toward Alvarez and rejected once again by Ted, who tells her Assia is now pregnant, Sylvia goes into a creative frenzy before finally succeeding in what was not her first suicide attempt.
		Unfolding under almost uniformly drab skies and in even drabber rooms, Plath's life is painted in uniformly dreary shades of emotional angst and domestic distress, as if the filmmakers felt the need to give a rigidly deterministic reading to Plath's life journey.
	duchovnyforum.com /showthread.php?t=1936 (1202 words)

	The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: Books: Book Reviews: Fun Couple
		Events described in the book are based in fact, and in the case of the story of Assia Wevill, Sylvia's rival, who also committed suicide, many of the facts were previously concealed or unknown.
		The author has concocted for her fictional biography an appropriately elliptical and poetic language, and she is capable of some beautiful and spare sentences.
		"And, then the winter came, with Assia glowing in the heart of it like a red-shaded bedroom lamp you just can't turn off" is an example of the kind of awful and attenuated writing she exhibits here.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:1203 (783 words)

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