Aurelia Plath Biography

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Otto Plath Was "A Good Boy, But a Poor Businessman"

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This Berkeley newspaper classified ad is so over-thought and overwrought it first made me laugh. Otto Plath, “Going East” in May 1914, offer...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Where Aurelia Plath Went to College

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Voyeur Arthur Inman lived across from Aurelia's all-female college, its campus here portrayed in its handbook, 1932. Boston University i...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Aurelia Plath Vowed Not to Make Her Kids Do This

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Aurelia at 18 worked "the summer after high school [1924] in an insurance company, typing dull form letters eight hours a day five and ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

How Otto Plath Divorced His First Wife Without Telling Her

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Where Otto Plath was divorced and Otto and Aurelia were married, Ormsby County Courthouse. Flickr.com Daylight was at its briefest, but Dece...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Soul Murder By Toxic Astro-Babble: Ted and Olwyn

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Space bathmat with dust clouds, Walmart.com   Olwyn Hughes gloried in playing malicious games to shut out her brothers’ wives and girlfrie...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Aurelia Plath, Young Wife and Mother: 24 Prince Street, Jamaica Plain

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Newlyweds Aurelia Schober and Otto Plath rented here the lower left unit from 1932 until 1936. This was where the couple rewrote for publica...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Aurelia's Platinum Summer

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In April 1954, Sylvia Plath mailed her mother Aurelia a birthday card picturing a witch. Back at Smith College after her breakdown, Sylvia, ...