Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label Sylvia Plath's family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvia Plath's family. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

"Plath" Versus "Platt": Her Real Last Name

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Otto Plath's Ellis Island entry record, September 1900 A couple of biographers say Sylvia Plath's family name is really "Platt,...
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&#...
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 16, 2024

Bones to Pick With Dick Norton

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Sylvia Plath and Dick Norton Found among Aurelia Plath's papers: a handwritten list of graceless/boneheaded comments aired by Sylvia'...
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 14, 2024

From Germany to the Pacific Northwest

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Sylvia Plath's story is so New England that links to the Pacific Northwest seem sort of odd. A true Bostonian, she saw England and Franc...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

"Family Reunion"'s Real People

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Sylvia Plath published the satirical poem "Family Reunion" in The Bradford , her high-school newspaper (she was co-editor) in Apri...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Did Sylvia Plath Look Like Her Mother? You Decide

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Only once have I heard "She looks like Aurelia," and the speaker sounded horrified. Never hav...
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