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New facts about Sylvia Plath's background and her mother Aurelia. By Catherine Rankovic

Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label sylvia plath mental illness. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

"I Am the Same, Identical Woman" (or Am I?)

Sylvia's paternal grandmother Courtesy of a descendant, here is Ernestine Kottke Plath (1853-1919), Otto Plath's mother and Sylvia&#...

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Ernestine Plath's Extreme Mental Illness

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

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Ernestine Plath, Sylvia's Grandmother, Oregon State Hospital

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

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Aurelia's M.A. Thesis: All You Need to Know

It's bilingual, but its first half is mostly in English, and reading Aurelia's thesis online I liked best its sympathetic portrait ...

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Sylvia Plath's Mad Grandmother's Ashes

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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About Me

Catherine Rankovic: St. Louis, MO, United States; Intrigued after decoding Aurelia Plath's Gregg shorthand notes on Sylvia Plath's papers, I began researching Aurelia's life -- and am the first person to go into depth. Me: M.A., M.F.A. Forty years' professional writing and publishing experience and 31 years' university teaching experience. I am well-published, most recently in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022).

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