AureliaPlath.Info

More people read The Bell Jar than Plath biographies, and for them Esther Greenwood’s psychiatrist, the good “Dr. Nolan,” arrived in summer...

A reminder that today is the anniversary of Ted and Sylvia Plath Hughes's departure from the U.S. to England on the U.S.S. United States...

Eighteen-year-old Sylvia Plath had written her mother Aurelia about exhaustion, sleeplessness and thoughts of suicide during her first semes...

Baroness Charlotte Sophie von Platen und Hallermund (1669-1725) Plath family lore says Sylvia Plath's paternal great-grandfather Johann,...

Aurelia's indignant "Fran X'ed this! out!" I guess Aurelia Plath decided if daughter Sylvia could make shit up, she could ...

A modern IQ puzzle designed for non-English speaking children, ages 7-8.     Stanford-Binet intelligence testing kit, 193...

We don't know Warren Plath very well. After his sister Sylvia's death he refused interviews, even those proposed by his own daughte...

Imagine that Sylvia Plath was orphaned at birth and grew up in a Boston orphanage, a public charge with no relatives. She is just as talente...

Looking for the root of the general contempt for Aurelia Plath, I thought some popular article or influential essay, some Ur-takedown, must ...

Paying my respects at the William S. Burroughs centennial, St. Louis. I am Catherine Rankovic, living in Missouri USA within driving distanc...

Notes and tapes of 1970s interviews with Sylvia Plath’s friends, dates, and teachers, now in the Harriet Rosenstein research files at Emory...

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

During her college years in the 1920s, The Boston Herald daily newspaper, relying on press releases from the student Press Club at Boston Un...

Aurelia Plath's shorthand annotations on the Lilly Library materials, cataloged and transcribed, are now available to all on the open-sc...

In the periodic table of elements, "Au" stands for gold. The name "Aurelia" means "golden." It comes from the ...

From Salon.com, 2000 , in an article called "The Real Sylvia Plath," by novelist Kate Moses: "Aurelia Plath had no self; sh...

The Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified , second edition (1955) arrived in the mail today, and will be used to sharpen my shorthand transcript...

I am taking an online refresher course in Gregg shorthand to prepare for my week in the Sylvia Plath archive, seeking and transcribing Aurel...