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Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by
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«Assia remained obsessively loyal to Ted. None of her suitors could overcome her addiction to him and he remained her idol; (…) . Days passed as she awaited his occasional visits. She felt she was suffocating in the increasingly shadowy reality of him, yet she could not, and did not, wish to escape the spell that he seemed to have cast over her. Only she could not bear it much longer.»
— Dec 26, 2023 09:33AM
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«Celia was apprehensive when she received her sister's letter but, being a housewife and mother of three small children, grounded in Montreal by her modest means and the needs of her family, she could not fly over to stand by her sister. She advised Assia to return to Canada. Assia declined: she refused to leave Ted even for a short while, fearing that in her absence another woman would soon take her place.»
— Dec 26, 2023 07:49AM
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«’There was in her something fragile and brittle about her, in need of protection, though I used to accuse her of exploitation. She did not seem so much lost, as for ever in the wrong place, in the wrong country, with the wrong man.'»
— Dec 24, 2023 05:13AM
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