Aurelia Plath Biography

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A Friend of the Family

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  “Robert J. Roberts, teacher of gymnastics,” pictured above, witnessed and signed Francis Schober’s Petition for Natura...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Aurelia Plath's Birthplace and the Myth of Her Childhood

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2047-2049 Columbus Ave., Boston, today. Built in 1890. Sylvia Plath's memoir "Ocean 1212-W" says of her grandparents' hous...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

"Forbidden Fruit": Aurelia Plath's Poems*

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    Aurelia Schober was 17 years old when her high-school yearbook, The Echo , 1923, published her poem "Forbidden Fruit." The Win...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Aurelia and the Great Equality Debate: Winthrop High School, 1924

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Debating team, Winthrop High School yearbook 1924, p. 58   Among the first four girls to break Winthrop High's debate team's gender ...
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Monday, January 25, 2021

Why Was Sylvia Plath Shut Out From Harvard Summer School?

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Sylvia Plath’s summer 1953 breakdown and suicide attempt are said to have hinged on being denied admission to author Frank O’Connor’s short-...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Rosalind Constable is Why You Are Reading This: Time Magazine's "Ariel" Review

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Screen grab from Constable's Warhol screen test, 1964   Perhaps you’ve read it:   On a dank day in February 1963, a...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Otto Plath's Family Matrix

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