Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label letters home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letters home. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The Mysterious Gap of 1958

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Aunt Aurelia bought us a parakeet! There are no letters from Sylvia Plath to her mother Aurelia between August 13, 1958 and July 9, 1959. Au...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

"My Mother Is My Best Friend" -- Uh, No

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Reacting in 1972 to an article called "My Parents Are My Friends," Aurelia Plath judged it "excellent and was my aim in life ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Books About Sylvia Plath That I Hate to Love

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-Claiming Sylvia Plath: The Poet as Exemplary Figure by Marianne Egeland (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) An academic work roundly hat...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Could Aurelia's Letters to Sylvia Still Exist?

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Somebody wiped Aurelia Plath's letters to Sylvia Plath off the face of the earth. Who was it? When biographers have guessed -- no one ha...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

Errors of Fact in Aurelia's "Letters Home" Introduction

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-Aurelia Frances Schober (later Plath) was born and lived her "early childhood" not in Winthrop, Massachusetts, but the working-cl...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

"Do Not Let Mother See This!"

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Sample of Aurelia's shorthand. It is false to say Sylvia Plath’s “letters home” to Wellesley were written for her mot...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Aurelia Plath's Birthplace and the Myth of Her Childhood

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2047-2049 Columbus Ave., Boston, today. Built in 1890. Sylvia Plath's memoir "Ocean 1212-W" says of her grandparents' hous...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Aurelia Plath's First Love

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Austrian civil engineer Dr. Karl von Terzaghi was invited to the U.S. in 1925 to teach and establish a program at M.I.T. and, incidentally...