Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label Ernestine Plath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ernestine Plath. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

A Place for Mom

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Sylvia Plath's paternal grandmother (1852-1919) I think now that this photo is exactly what it looks like: Somebody hit the old lady. Th...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

"I Am the Same, Identical Woman" (or Am I?)

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Sylvia's paternal grandmother Courtesy of a descendant, here is Ernestine Kottke Plath (1853-1919), Otto Plath's mother and Sylvia...
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Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Light of the Mind

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"Darkness is not empty. It is information at rest." -Teju Cole Usually I'm in some archive or library thrilled to be hunting o...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Sylvia's Grandmother's Mental Hospital, Jamestown, North Dakota

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Sylvia Plath's grandmother Ernestine Plath spent five years in this North Dakota mental hospital: 1905 to 1910. The print says, "Ma...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Ernestine Plath's Extreme Mental Illness

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Sylvia Plath's mentally ill grandmother, Ernestine Plath, was much sicker than we ever knew, a mental hospital veteran when her husband ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Ernestine Plath, Sylvia's Grandmother, Oregon State Hospital

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Sylvia Plath's paternal grandmother Ernestine Plath, photograph c. 1916 from her file at the Oregon State Hospital (formerly "Insan...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Who?

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Meet Sylvia Plath's grandfather Theodor, master-blacksmith/inventor, and his wife Ernestine, grandmother who died in the Oregon State Ho...