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This article was nominated for deletion on 2006 April 16. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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Word in transit

I'm querying the word 'volanturious' - I can't find it in 'puter and wiki dictionaries. I suspect it's a transliteration (literal translation into English) and misses the meaning. If it is a misspelling of 'voluntarious' = 'voluntary' used in archaic literary form, I suggest it could mean 'free-spirited' and I want to substitute this for the existing word. Any objections? Julia Rossi 23:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copy edit & reason to retain article

I vote to keep this article from deletion - not only did I copy edit the whole thing with corrections (including corrected Univ) - but because new stuff has come up in 60 Hughes letters acquired by Emory university recently (see SMH link) that expands the information about Assia. Also a researcher would appreciate having a linked article to David Wevill and Ted Hughes bios that provide a viewpoint from the exploited ones and into the complex lives of artists (poets here). BTW I changed that word to free-spirited to make sense. Julia Rossi 01:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad this article (about an interesting person, significantly involved in a sad story) has been kept. If I had known about the vote, I too would have voted to keep it.

In the discussion of the vote-for-deletion someone said "I don't believe that suicides by relatives of famous people are worthy of their own articles". Which is a bit odd, perhaps unpleasant. Assia was not just a 'suicide', she was a human being, no doubt with flaws (unlike the rest of us, thank goodness..!) who sadly took her own life, and that of her daughter. And an important person in the story of Hughes and Plath.

However, when I find sentences in the article about un-cited rumours about Ted Hughes (even admitting that they are rumours..and I know of no evidence to back them up) I realise how tenaciously some people go through wiki, trying to impose upon the world their preferred version of a story nobody will ever know the whole truth about. One of the weaknesses of the wiki project, no doubt. I have removed that sentence to improve the scholarlship of this article slightly. --92.19.153.194 (talk) 19:57, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

She had important relations with, or effects on the work of, three major poets, Weevil, Hughes and yes, Plath. Aside from career in advertising, she was a creative person in her own right, doing the Amichai translation and writing and directing one short play for television (that was produced but never aired). She merits an article in her own name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.118.175 (talk) 15:18, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Marriages

The article states that her second marriage ended in divorce, but does not state how her first and third marriages ended. Did the first end in divorce, or the husband's death? Did the third end in divorce, or her death? F W Nietzsche (talk) 08:26, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A decree of divorce from her third husband,poet David Weevil,was granted about nine months before her suicide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.118.175 (talk) 14:56, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Murder method

Not to be ghoulish, but the article mentions everal times that Wevill murdered her daughter--without ever saying HOW. Anyone? 76.65.181.112 (talk) 17:05, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe she gassed her daughter at the same time she gassed herself. But that's going by the 1976 (?) bio on Sylvia Plath that refers to her with the pseudonym "Olga" User:Codenamemary|Codenamemary]] (talk) 23:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Was Assia a poet? I noticed she's filed under "Poets who committed suicide" but in the article there's no mention of her writing poetry. --Matt723star (talk) 01:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

According to her biographers, Assia wrote poetry in England. Poet and critic Pat Kavanagh called her published translation of Amichai "stunning" (see Koran and Negev).

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If you wish to add details to the article, please add a reliable source, otherwise it will reverted. Span (talk) 15:21, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]