Fan Casting Assia Gutmann in Shattered Reflections: The Sylvia Plath Saga

Assia Esther Wevill was a German Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Occupied 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.