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Plath ancestors. Sylvia's complete family tree is at FamilySearch.org. Used to be that the Plath family tree went back only to 1826, the...

Otto Plath's first wife Lydia Bartz, as she looked when they met. Here's a new-found photo of Otto Plath's first wife, Lydia Bar...

On 9 January 1953 Sylvia Plath, her leg in a cast, wrote from Smith College to her mother that she was less depressed after persuading the c...

Plath family heirloom c. 1881, 24" wide. Click to enlarge. Otto Plath left Prussia before he was old enough to serve in the Imperial Ge...

Century Association, 7 West 43rd St., New York Sylvia Plath's black granduncle Christopher Nicholson once worked in an exclusive arts-an...

My first trip overseas was to Poland and I'd move there except my house is Polish already, with a flowering meadow across the lane, etc....

Sylvia Plath's mentally ill grandmother, Ernestine Plath, was much sicker than we ever knew, a mental hospital veteran when her husband ...

Sylvia Plath's paternal grandmother Ernestine Plath, photograph c. 1916 from her file at the Oregon State Hospital (formerly "Insan...

The Nicholsons rented 116R North New Jersey Ave., Atlantic City, in 1915. The storefront and rear extension are additions; more typical hous...

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

Train station at Budzyn, point of departure for three generations of ambitious Plaths. The young couple whose parents wouldn't consent t...

Sylvia Plath's DNA test results would break the Internet, but we can know right now that on her mother's side Sylvia was part Hungar...

Recently made public, t Sylvia's high-school yearbook photo, 1950 he 1950 U.S. census tells us more about the Plath household than I tho...

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

October 1932 issue “I was totally imbued with the desire to be a good mother,” said Aurelia Plath, and a pink satin Baby Book now in the Syl...

"Prussian Expulsion" ("Rugi pruskie") by Wojciech Kossak Otto Plath was born in a violent year in Pru...

Meet Sylvia Plath's grandfather Theodor, master-blacksmith/inventor, and his wife Ernestine, grandmother who died in the Oregon State Ho...

Ship's manifest listing immigrants Ernestine Plath and five of her six children, 1901 Here's rare information abo...