Aurelia Frances Plath was an American associate professor of medical secretarial skills at Boston University, the wife of Otto Plath, and the mother of author Sylvia Plath and Warren Plath.
13 Facts About Aurelia Plath
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Aurelia Plath's family struggled financially during the Great Depression due to her father's failed investments in the stock market.
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Aurelia Plath had hoped to attend Wellesley College but was unable to afford it.
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Aurelia Plath Schober was president of the college's German Club, vice president of its Writers' Club, editor-in-chief of the college yearbook, and class valedictorian.
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Aurelia Plath married Otto Emil Plath in 1932 and subsequently gave birth to daughter Sylvia in the same year and son Warren in 1935.
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Mrs Aurelia Plath taught there until her forced retirement in 1971.
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In 1975, Mrs Aurelia Plath published her daughter's letters from 1950 to 1963 as Letters Home.
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Mrs Aurelia Plath donated other papers to Smith College's Aurelia Plath archive in 1983.
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Sylvia Aurelia Plath made reference to her maternal grandmother by making "Esther Greenwood" the name of the heroine in her 1963 semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.
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The relationship between Aurelia Plath and her daughter was a rather problematic and ambiguous one, for on the one hand they were exceptionally close to each other, and on the other hand Sylvia Plath often claimed that she hated her mother.
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Sylvia Aurelia Plath portrayed their relationship in the poems "The Disquieting Muses" and "Medusa" and in the novel The Bell Jar.
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Aurelia Plath called the novel's characterizations of herself, family, and friends "cruel".
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Aurelia Plath died March 11,1994, aged 87, of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Needham, Massachusetts.