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Born in Berlin , of German, Russian, and Jewish descent, Wevill is the woman for whom Ted Hughes left his wife Sylvia Plath . Wevill’s third husband was the Canadian poet David Wevill . She was the daughter of a Jewish physician of Russian origin and spent her youth in Tel Aviv and Canada , and had worked in the advertising industry. A refugee from Germany after the beginning of World War II , Assia was herself an aspiring poet. She began her affair with Hughes after 1961 when he and Plath took up residence in Devon , which continued after Plath committed suicide. Hughes moved her into Court Green (the seaside Devon home that he had bought for Plath). Wevill was haunted by Plath’s ghost –even though she attempted to take over Sylvia’s place (she even began using things that had once belonged to the poetess). She was anxious that Hughes would leave her and the daughter she bore him on March 3 , 1965 , Alexandra Tatiana Eloise, nicknamed "Shura." On March 25 , 1969 , Assia Wevill took her own life and that of their daughter in a manner that nearly re-enacted Plath's suicide. Dragging a mattress into the kitchen, Assia sealed the door and window, dissolved sleeping pills in a glass of water and gave them to Shura. Taking the rest of the pills, she turned on the gas stove, and lay down on the mattress with her daughter. In the 2003 film Sylvia , she is played by Amira Casar . Ted Hughes’ poem “Folktale” deals with his relation to Assia: She wanted the silent heraldry Of the purple beach by the noble wall. He wanted Cabala the ghetto demon With its polythene bag full of ashes.¹

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Assia Wevill (May 15, 1927 – March 23, 1969) was a German -born woman who escaped the Nazis, lived in British Palestine and later in Britain, and is best known for her relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes . She notoriously murdered her young daughter, Shura, before killing herself, six years after Hughes's previous wife Sylvia Plath had also committed suicide, leading to rumours that he was an abusive husband and father. Wevill killed herself in similar fashion to Plath by use of a gas oven.

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Assia Wevill (May 15, 1927 – March 23, 1969) was a German-born woman who escaped the Nazis, living in Mandate Palestine and later in Britain, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes . She killed herself and also her four-year-old daughter Alexandra Tatiana Elise ("Shura"). Six years earlier, Hughes's wife Sylvia Plath had also committed suicide. Wevill committed suicide in similar fashion to Plath, by use of a gas oven.

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Assia Esther Wevill ( née Gutmann ; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Palestine , then later the United Kingdom, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes . She killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Alexandra Tatiana Elise (nicknamed Shura) using a gas oven, similar to Hughes's first wife Sylvia Plath 's suicide six years earlier.

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German poet and partner of Ted Hughes (1927-1969) 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 Palestine , via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes . While she was a successful advertising copywriter and a talented translator of poetry, she is mainly remembered in the context of her relationships with Sylvia Plath and Hughes.

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German poet and partner of Ted Hughes (1927-1969) 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 . While she was a successful advertising copywriter and a talented translator of poetry, she is mainly remembered in the context of her relationship with Sylvia Plath and Hughes.

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