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Following Sylvia Plath in romance, and suicide.(BOOKS)
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Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
There was a peculiarly obnoxious concept and a kind of game that went with it popular in the 1950s and 1960s in Britain. It was called one-upmanship.
One of the more revolting examples of this involved Assia Wevill, who broke up the already turbulent marriage between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. When her time came in turn, not only did she react to Hughes' rejection by committing suicide, as Plath had done, but where her predecessor had protected her two young children from the lethal fumes, Wevill gassed ...
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