Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, began an affair with Assia Wevill not long before Plath took her own life — and then Wevill died in an eerily similar manner years later.

When Sylvia Plath died by suicide in 1963, many of her fans blamed her husband, Ted Hughes. They had separated a year prior, largely due to his affair with a woman named Assia Wevill.

Wevill was a copywriter and poetry translator who had rented an apartment from Hughes when she and her husband, David, moved to London’s Primrose Hill neighborhood in 1961. Despite the fact that they were both married, Hughes and Wevill quickly fell in love.

Following Plath’s death, Wevill moved in with Hughes almost immediately. By 1965, they’d welcomed a daughter, Shura. However, the memory of Plath loomed over their relationship. We

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