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1 Roslyn Place, Jamaica Plain, built 1910. Aurelia wrote that family visits to her uncle here were among "the sweeteners of my childhoo...

Aurelia Plath with her book Letters Home , getting her say. Silenced by her son-in-law who held her grandchildren hostage, jeered by critics...

Montage from The Burning Bed , starring Farrah Fawcett, 1984 Imagine living in a time and place when it was legal and even good to beat yo...

Sylvia Plath was under uniquely monstrous pressure to write happy, reassuring letters home, right? Dearest Father and Mother! . . . Cable m...

Sylvia Plath wrote on August 16, 1960, to her mother, Aurelia: As you were reading your World War II book about Colditz and Aurelia altered ...

"Simply gutted of all strength and energy. I wear about five sweaters and wool pants and knee socks and can't stop my teeth chatter...

Sylvia Plath’s summer 1953 breakdown and suicide attempt are said to have hinged on being denied admission to author Frank O’Connor’s short-...

c. 1960s Sylvia Plath did learn a form of shorthand -- "Speedwriting," the "cn u rd ths" note-taking system invented...

Seeking reviews of Letters Home I found in the Sydney (AU) Morning Herald , April 3, 1976, page 18, a review by novelist Jill Neville title...

There are 1,934 pieces of correspondence in the Lilly Library's Sylvia Plath archive. Since posting here in 2013 I have updated in detai...