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Lover of Unreason

Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love

By Eilat Negev, Yehuda Koren

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The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—tContinue

The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman: Hughes’ mistress Assia Wevill.

Like Plath before her, Assia shared her life with Hughes for seven years, until she took her own life and that of their daughter at the age of forty-two, in a manner that nearly replicated Plath’s suicide six years earlier. Drawing on previously unavailable documents and private papers, including Assia’s diaries and her intimate correspondence with Hughes, this book shows the vital influence Assia exerted on the poet and his work, and the uneasy life they shared under the long shadow of Plath.

A Lover of Unreason is the first-ever full-length biography of Assia Wevill. It casts a keen light, and explores the emergence of a singular twentieth-century woman. Three-times divorcée, career woman, mistress, and single mother, Assia Wevill openly defied the conventions of a censorious pre-feminist Britain and mesmerized men and women alike with her quick-mind and exotic beauty.

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  • The invisible woman

    A Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev 320pp, Robson Books, £20 Looking yourself up in the index, Norman Mailer-like, might be a good way to joke-start a review, but not, I think, here. My name occurs a number of times in this biography ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Lover Of Unreason

    Assia Wevill, known as the woman who took Ted Hughes from Sylvia Plath, not only lived in Plath’s apartment after her suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning but killed herself and her four-year-old daughter in the same manner, six years later. This bio ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 384 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0786718617
  • ISBN-13: 9780786718610
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf
  • Pub date: Dec 06, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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