Aurelia Plath Biography

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Was Aurelia A Virgin Bride?

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When Aurelia Schober married Otto Plath, January 4, 1932, she was 25 and he 46. Because Aurelia said nothing about whether she was a virgin ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Aurelia Plath and "The Case for Chastity"

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Aurelia Plath gave Sylvia Plath a Reader’s Digest article titled “The Case for Chastity,” written by a married mother of four, cautioning yo...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Could Aurelia's Letters to Sylvia Still Exist?

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Somebody wiped Aurelia Plath's letters to Sylvia Plath off the face of the earth. Who was it? When biographers have guessed -- no one ha...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Aurelia's Basement Tapes

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Screen grab from Voices & Visions, 1988 Aurelia Plath in 1986 spoke on audiotape about Sylvia while rehearsing for an interview with Voi...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Above All, Does It Pay? The Plaths' Financial World

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Otto Plath died in 1940. Aurelia Plath said he left his family a $5,000 life-insurance policy. In 2021, the equivalent of that payout would ...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Otto Plath Was Disowned Because . . .

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A personal insight: Aurelia Plath's Letters Home introduction tells us that Otto Plath's Lutheran grandparents financed his college...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Errors of Fact in Aurelia's "Letters Home" Introduction

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-Aurelia Frances Schober (later Plath) was born and lived her "early childhood" not in Winthrop, Massachusetts, but the working-cl...