During a visit to SP
by her mother
, Ted Hughes
divided his time between Devon and London, between Sylvia and Assia
. He and Plath had all but separated.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
160-2
Family and Intimate relationships
Sylvia Plath
Soon Assia Wevill
became Ted Hughes's lover, as Sylvia had intuited that she would, on the evidence of this weekend. Their affair led to the dissolution of the Plath-Hughes marriage and then to the marriage...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Fainlight
The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes
survived Plath's death. RF
later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill
sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia...
David
and Assia Wevill
, a Canadian poet and his wife who had rented SP
's and Ted Hughes
's former flat in London, visited them for a weekend in Devon.
Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Heinemann, 1991.
156-7
Textual Production
Emma Tennant
ET
published what one critic described as a kind of soap-opera biography or literary thriller about Sylvia Plath
, Ted Hughes
, and Assia Wevill
, The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted.