Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love (edit title)

Meggly edited the quotations of Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"...with the enormous difference that she had a million times the talent, 1,000 times the will, 100 times the greed and passion that I have. I should never have looked into Pandora's box, and now that I have I am forced to wear her love-widow's sacking, without any of her compensations. What, in 5 years' time, will he reproach me for? What sort of woman am I? How much time have I been given? How much time has run out? What have I done with it? Have I used myself to the hilt already? Am I enough for him? AM I ENOUGH FOR HIM?"”From her diary--the author prefaces this quote with, "A horrifying thought began to creep in: that she was inviting Sylvia's doom for herself."

Meggly edited the characters of Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Assia Wevill: Mistress of Ted Hughes
• marked the description of Assia Wevill as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Ted Hughes
• Added a character: Sylvia Plath
• Added the description of Lonya Gutmann: Assia Wevill's father
• marked the description of Lonya Gutmann as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Elizabetha "Lisa" Gaedeke (Gutmann): Assia Wevill's mother
• marked the description of Elizabetha "Lisa" Gaedeke (Gutmann) as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Celia Gutmann: Assia Wevill's sister
• marked the description of Celia Gutmann as not a spoiler
• Added the description of John Steele: Assia Wevill's first husband
• marked the description of John Steele as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Richard "Dick" Lipsey: Assia Wevill's second husband
• marked the description of Richard "Dick" Lipsey as not a spoiler
• Added the description of David Wevill: Assia Wevill's third husband
• marked the description of David Wevill as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Alexandra "Shura" Tatiana Elise Wevill: Daughter of Assia Wevill and Ted Hughes born while Assia was still married to David Wevill
• marked the description of Alexandra "Shura" Tatiana Elise Wevill as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the description of Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love Saturday, August 1 2009.

• The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman: Hughes' mistress Assia Wevill. Like Plath before her, Assia shared her life with Hughes for seven years, until she took her own life and that of their daughter at the age of forty-two, in a manner that nearly replicated Plath's suicide six years earlier. Drawing on previously unavailable documents and private papers, including Assia's diaries and her intimate correspondence with Hughes, this book shows the vital influence Assia exerted on the poet and his work, and the uneasy life they shared under the long shadow of Plath. A Lover of Unreason is the first-ever full-length biography of Assia Wevill. It casts a keen light, and explores the emergence of a singular twentieth-century woman. Three-times divorcée, career woman, mistress, and single mother, Assia Wevill openly defied the conventions of a censorious pre-feminist Britain and mesmerized men and women alike with her quick-mind and exotic beauty.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Yehuda Koren: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love Friday, July 17 2009.

• Times were changing, and Ephraim Gutmann turned a blind eye when his son found all sorts of excuses not to accompany him to the synagogue on Friday evenings.