Aurelia Plath Biography

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Showing posts with label sylvia plath's father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sylvia plath's father. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

"Plath" Versus "Platt": Her Real Last Name

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Otto Plath's Ellis Island entry record, September 1900 A couple of biographers say Sylvia Plath's family name is really "Platt,...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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

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Sylvia's paternal grandmother Courtesy of a descendant, here is Ernestine Kottke Plath (1853-1919), Otto Plath's mother and Sylvia&#...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Two Young Pacifists

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Plymouth, NH merchant to COs working in the area, 1940s Edwin Akutowicz, born in Connecticut in 1922, in the 1943 Trinity College yearbook i...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Otto Plath Was Born In a Violent Year

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"Prussian Expulsion" ("Rugi pruskie") by Wojciech Kossak Otto Plath was born in a violent year in Pru...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Who?

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Meet Sylvia Plath's grandfather Theodor, master-blacksmith/inventor, and his wife Ernestine, grandmother who died in the Oregon State Ho...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Plaths in Steerage

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In picturing young Otto Plath wretchedly alone in steerage to the U.S. I was wrong. The ship’s manifest shows that 20-year-old Louis Schulz ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Otto Plath Was "A Good Boy, But a Poor Businessman"

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This Berkeley newspaper classified ad is so over-thought and overwrought it first made me laugh. Otto Plath, “Going East” in May 1914, offer...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

How Otto Plath Divorced His First Wife Without Telling Her

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Where Otto Plath was divorced and Otto and Aurelia were married, Ormsby County Courthouse. Flickr.com Daylight was at its briefest, but Dece...