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Perseus isn't finished with Medusa until he turns his mother's suitor into stone. "Sappho" by Beth Hinchliffe. America mag...

Frieda Anna Plath and brother Hugo, Sylvia's aunt and uncle, c. 1918 [1] Otto Plath blamed and hated his first wife, Lydia Bartz Plath, ...

Studious me with manual typewriter, junior year Most Popular Diary of an Aurelia Plath Researcher (May 16) Thank you for your interest in w...

A while back I heard that Sylvia Plath's ancestry had been researched and written up but mostly cut from the final draft of Red Comet (...

Front row, third from left. Her Winthrop High graduating class had 146 students. Aurelia Schober in this yearbook photo from 1924 -- she'...

I thought that for a poet who hated her mother, Sylvia Plath wrote surprisingly few poems of mother-hatred or mother-criticism -- true! -- a...

Delighted to tell you History Press of U.K. will publish on September 14, 2023, Dr. Rachel Trethewey's triple biography Mothers of the M...

Ukrainian soldiers training to use a grenade launcher, Christian Science Monitor 10 May 2023 . Photo and story by Scott Peterson Sylvia Plat...

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

New York City, June 1953 Sylvia Plath wore some very unflattering things, and besides photos of her in swimsuits, only the wool-coat-and-kne...

"At Winthrop Beach," 1951 "Point Shirley and Beach," 1936 "Point Shirley and Deer Island" , 1937 "After...

August 16, 2022: First Known Photo of Otto Plath's parents July 12: Four Generations of Pop-Up Weddings June 7: Digitized video footage ...

Here is how and why author Frank O'Connor rejected Sylvia's application to his summer 1953 short-story writing course. O'Connor...

Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother Aurelia Plath on December 8, 1957, “I am sitting so cosily in my lovely black velvet to...

Let's say your German professor, tall and good-looking, has been favoring you the whole semester, and after you hand in your master'...

Paying my respects at the William S. Burroughs centennial, St. Louis. I am Catherine Rankovic, living in Missouri USA within driving distanc...

The only known photo of Aurelia Plath with Otto, July 1933. Sylvia’s Plath’s poem “Daddy,” written in 1962, implies tha...

Screen grab from Voices & Visions, 1988 Aurelia Plath in 1986 spoke on audiotape about Sylvia while rehearsing for an interview with Voi...