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Assia Wevill’s Canadian Connections
Image credit: Bonhams, The Roy Davids Collection Content Warning: Suicide and Child Murder Today would have been Assia (Gutmann) Wevill’s 99th birthday; she was only 41 when she died in 1969, in a murder-suicide alongside her daughter Shura, who had recently turned four. I approach writing about Wevill with deep ambivalence, worrying that my own…
