Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label plath family history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plath family history. Show all posts
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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Saturday, April 22, 2023

Another Suicide in Sylvia Plath's Family

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Sylvia's maternal grandmother, "Grammy" Greenwood Schober (b. 1887) had six siblings. All left Vienna, Austria, for the United...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Finding Barbara Greenwood, Sylvia's Great-Grandmother

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Aurelia Plath's maternal grandparents Mathias and Barbara Greenwood, parents of Sylvia's "Grammy," were both over 50 when ...
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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Sylvia Plath's Mad Grandmother's Ashes

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One of 3500 cans of ashes. Photo by "Kim" at Findagrave.com. Sylvia Plath's paternal grandmother Ernestine Kottke Plath died a...
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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Otto Plath and Lydia Bartz Plath, Voter Registration Rolls, 1914

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Let's retire the fiction that Otto Plath and first wife Lydia Clara Bartz Plath, married in Washington State in August 1912, were togeth...
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...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Otto Plath's First Wife Lydia, and Her Career

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findagrave.com Otto Plath’s first wife, Lydia Clara Bartz (1889-1988) was “Mrs. Lydia Plath” all her long adult life. She is buried in ...