Aurelia Plath Biography

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Courage of Not Shutting Up

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Aurelia Plath with her book Letters Home , getting her say. Silenced by her son-in-law who held her grandchildren hostage, jeered by critics...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

When "Ariel" Was New: Early Critical Essays About Sylvia Plath

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I got a hard copy of the earliest compilation of Sylvia Plath criticism, the journal  Tri-Quarterly  No. 7,  Fall 1966. This "Womanly I...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Sweetly Picking Up Pieces

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Here's a note from Sylvia Plath to her mother Aurelia Plath, dated by Aurelia 18 July 1962. Sylvia in this note was telling Aurelia how ...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Cultural Debris in Aurelia Plath's Archives

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Meet Aurelia Plath's Joys of Jell-O cookbook (1962). Among her last effects and sharing a packing box with Great Short Stories of the W...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

How the "Letters Home" Playwright Changed the World

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Montage from The Burning Bed , starring Farrah Fawcett, 1984 Imagine living in a time and place when it was legal and even good to beat yo...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

A Hun Named Attila

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Attila Kassay, M.B.A. Harvard, 1957. Sylvia Plath was a schoolgirl when the Cold War started in 1946. She saw communist Russia pulp Eastern ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Only Perfection Will Do

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For Aurelia Plath only perfection would do -- her ideas of perfection. Which were others' ideas of perfection. These overwhelmed her. Wh...
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