In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
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In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
In 1969, Assia Wevill--hailed as a great beauty and advertising talent--bizarrely committed suicide in the same manner as her paramour's wife six years earlier. To add to the tragedy, she killed her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. This is the story of a woman tormented by the dead poet Sylvia Plath, the refusal of Sylvia's husband Ted to commit to her even after he fathered her child, and the memory of her escape from Hitler and the Holocaust.
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SOURCES AND RECOMMENDED READING:
Hughes, Ted. “Ted Hughes Calls Letter about Marriage to Sylvia Plath ‘Libellous.’ The Guardian, 20 Apr 1989.
Koren, Yehuda and Eilat Negev. A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill. Robson, 2006.
Middlebrook, Diane. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath—A Marriage. Viking, 2003.
Sigmund, Elizabeth. “I Realized Sylvia Knew about Assia’s Pregnancy.” The Guardian, 22 Apr 1999.
Stadlen, Matthew. “Frieda Hughes: ‘I was 14 when I Discovered My Mother Committed Suicide.” The Telegraph, 31 Oct 2015.
Wevill, Assia. “Sea Witch Hair Colour Commercial.” 1965. History of Advertising Trust. http://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/f42d2656-397d-4c2a-a698-a989d795a15c
Crime Scholar
In-depth research by Paris Brown, a PhD candidate, former 9-1-1 police radio dispatcher, and vintage curator of true crime, mysteries, tragedies, eccentrics, and the beauty of the bizarre--all told with flair and big hair. Formerly 'Class A Felons.'
