• 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...
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    awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 1981. Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969. Penguin Modern...
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  • 1973), French pop singer Assia Djebar (1936–2015), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker Assia Wevill (1927–1969) Assia Dagher (1908–1986), Egyptian...
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  • The Bell Jar. In the summer of 1962, Ted Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill; Hughes and Plath separated in the autumn of 1962. On February 11, 1963...
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  • Plath's suicide by asphyxiation from a gas stove, Assia Wevill died by suicide in the same way. Wevill also killed her child, Alexandra Tatiana Elise (nicknamed...
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  • come as naturally to her as it does to Ted. After a visit by David and Assia Wevill, who had rented their London flat, Sylvia rightly accuses Ted of infidelity...
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    flat at Chalcot Square to Assia (née Gutmann) Wevill and David Wevill. Hughes was immediately struck with the beautiful Assia, as she was with him. In...
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    portrayed Myriem in How I Killed My Father (2001) by Anne Fontaine; Assia Wevill in Sylvia (2003) by Christine Jeffs; the lead role of The Woman in the...
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    commemorated with a blue plaque. They rented their home to Assia Wevill and David Wevill. Other famous residents have included Ralph, Marion, Ed, and...
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    it was discovered that Hughes was having an affair with German Poet Assia Wevill which led to Plath and Hughes divorcing. Initially in “The Applicant”...
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    Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), poet Marina Tsvetayeva (1892–1941), poet Assia Wevill (1927–1969), poet Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist, short-story writer...
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    1967 71 Composer Unspecified sedatives Unknown Assia Wevill 1927 1969 41 Poet Sleeping pills Suicide Wevill took the pills then exposed herself to carbon...
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    Yehuda and Negev, Eilat A Lover of Unreason: the Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Robson Books, London 2006 The God of Small Things Archived 4 March 2016...
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    After Plath's suicide, Ted Hughes moved his partner Assia Wevill into Court Green where Assia helped care for Hughes' and Plath's two children, Frieda...
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  • Research Council of Canada. Lipsey was the second husband of Assia Gutmann (later Wevill); they had met while she was enrolled in the University of British...
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  • school student, hanging Fred West (1995), English serial killer, hanging Assia Wevill (1969), German-born lover of English poet Ted Hughes, murder–suicide...
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  • 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their...
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  • her play Doonreagan, about the period when Ted Hughes and his partner Assia Wevill lived there. Life Harvest, 2021 The Sphere of Light, 2019 Only Our Own...
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  • March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet David Wevill), gasses herself and their daughter...
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