Aurelia Plath Biography

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

In The Polish Town

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My first trip overseas was to Poland and I'd move there except my house is Polish already, with a flowering meadow across the lane, etc....
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Why an Aurelia Plath Biography is Impossible (For Now)

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Analyze the appeal to young women of this creative collage-style ad (1957) Here's what's derailed my longtime goal to write a book-l...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

From Germany to the Pacific Northwest

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Sylvia Plath's story is so New England that links to the Pacific Northwest seem sort of odd. A true Bostonian, she saw England and Franc...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Ernestine Plath's Extreme Mental Illness

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Sylvia Plath's mentally ill grandmother, Ernestine Plath, was much sicker than we ever knew, a mental hospital veteran when her husband ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Ernestine Plath, Sylvia's Grandmother, Oregon State Hospital

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Sylvia Plath's paternal grandmother Ernestine Plath, photograph c. 1916 from her file at the Oregon State Hospital (formerly "Insan...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Five Reasons Why We Hate Aurelia Plath

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Witch, bloodsucker, martyr -- and she probably voted for Eisenhower. She's not a writer, not talented. She was manless, not sexy, not a ...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Otto Plath's Wives and His Sister Frieda Plath

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Frieda Anna Plath and brother Hugo, Sylvia's aunt and uncle, c. 1918 [1] Otto Plath blamed and hated his first wife, Lydia Bartz Plath, ...