Ted Hughes Treated Mistress Like a Tyrant Before Her Suicide, Claims New Biography

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HE WAS hailed as one of the great literary talents of his generation and a poet of national importance.

But a shocking new biography reveals that Poet Laureate and children's writer Ted Hughes had a tyrannical streak and taunted his German mistress with pages of instructions on how to conduct her day. They included what time she should get up, and how she should manage their house and his children.

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Ted Hughes Treated Mistress Like a Tyrant Before Her Suicide, Claims New Biography

The claims appear in the first biography of Assia Wevill, Hughes' mistress of six years, who is believed to have begun her affair with the poet when...

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