The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick (Edited by), Peter K. Steinberg (Edited by), Eilat Negev (Foreword by), Yehuda Koren (Foreword by)

9780807171356

Hardback, published 10 November 2021

320 pages, 24 halftones
23.3 x 20.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.622 kg

The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927–1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill offers an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.