Aurelia Plath Biography

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Burning The Letters: Aurelia's "Eyewitness" Account

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From a 1976 interview of Aurelia Plath by Robert Roberton, published in The Listener , Vol. 95, p. 516. Aurelia had just described Sylvia Pl...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Aurelia Speaks About "Mrs. Greenwood"

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Quoted from a 1976 interview of Aurelia Plath by Robert Roberton, published in The Listener , Vol. 95, pp. 515-16. They're discussing Th...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Dick Norton Knew Shorthand

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Sylvia’s boyfriend from 1951 to 1953, Dick Norton, in a July 1953 letter asked Sylvia how her shorthand lessons were going. (Aurelia later w...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Aurelia's Marginal Notes: Some Stats

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There are 1,934 pieces of correspondence in the Lilly Library's Sylvia Plath archive. Since posting here in 2013 I have updated in detai...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Off, Off, Eely Tentacle!

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It's interesting to see, in the archives, what Aurelia chose to omit from Letters Home . (What Ted Hughes wanted cut from it is another ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Tart Remarks From 1956

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In May 1956, Sylvia's letters to Aurelia were gushing about her wonderful fiance Ted Hughes. Aurelia had never met Ted; she knew only th...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

While Everyone Was Reading The Bell Jar . . .

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The Bell Jar was new in the U.S. when I was in high school, and reading about Esther Greenwood's unnamed mother trying to force steno...
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