Assia Wevill was a complex person, born to dichotomies. Her remarkable life evinces both the limitations and the possibilities of a gifted, independent, spirited, ambitious woman in the mid-20th ...

Assia Wevill is the dark lady of the Plath/Hughes agon. As Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev put it in “Lover of Unreason” (Carroll & Graf, 268 pages, $27.95), “Assia was reduced to the role of a she-devil ...

Ted Hughes left behind a path of personal tragedy and destruction — and also some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language. The British Poet Laureate was the husband of writer Sylvia Plath ...

A series of unpublished poems handwritten by Ted Hughes in moments of sorrow following the deaths of his partner, Assia Wevill, and their daughter Shura in 1969 will be offered at a week-long ...

Lover of Unreason is the first book to flesh out Assia Wevill, the mysterious woman whose affair with British poet Ted Hughes probably contributed to the suicide of Sylvia Plath.

Chancellor’s Professor Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick is the co-editor of a new book, “The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill.” The book marks a significant development in literary recovery ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia ...

Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47… ...

And the tragedy then was that the intensity of the relationship, the mental illness of Sylvia, and then Ted's dalliance with this other woman, Assia Wevill, led to their tragic separation.