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| After a six-day work week, the working girl gets the memo "We missed you last Sunday at Sunday School." Source unknown. |
I am stocked up with two years' worth of research for new posts. Here's a selection, in capsule form:
"Anxiety is Terror": Sylvia Plath thought her mother's anxiety was cowardice, but labeling anxiety a disease and a personal weakness, and medicating it, disguises systemic threats which for very good reasons cause chronic terror and dread.
"A Place for Mom": Sylvia's mad grandmother Ernestine Plath probably preferred life at an insane asylum over wifehood and motherhood.
"Aurelia Plath's Archive": Aurelia curated the 3000-piece Plath mss. II archive at Indiana University's Lilly Library so we see only what Aurelia wanted us to see. What is missing?
"Aurelia the Peacenik": Oddly, "peace" was an important value in the family of a famously troubled writer.
"Herr des Hauses": Examples in period literature show Otto's dictatorial ways at home were the norm in Prussia.
"How I Read Essays About Sylvia Plath": I read critical essays and biographies way differently than before.
"I Am An American": How Sylvia and family were entangled in the first-generation-American assimilation process.
"It Has a Gothic Shape": obstacles to Sylvia's learning German.
"Miss Mucky-Muck and Lady Jane": Nicknames and labels people hung on Esther Greenwood and on Sylvia.
"Rude Speculations: When Your Rival is Your Mom"
"Sylvia and Her Family's Secrets"
"Sylvia Plath, Drama Queen"
"Sylvia Plath, Harriet Rosenstein, and Ms. Magazine"
"Visage de Aurelia Schober Plath": Probably will be a video.
"When Nervous Breakdowns Were Cool": They were.