Lover of Unreason

''Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had'', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel – Assia inspired many epithets during her life.The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of ...