Background
Aurelia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Franz (Frank) Schober of Bad Aussee, Styria, and his wife Aurelia Grünwald (Greenwood).
Aurelia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Franz (Frank) Schober of Bad Aussee, Styria, and his wife Aurelia Grünwald (Greenwood).
Their relationship is portrayed in Plath"s novel The Bell Jar, and in the poem Medusa. In 1975, Aurelia Plath published her daughter"s letters from 1950-1963 as Letters Home. Aurelia died, aged 87, of complications from Alzheimer"s disease in Needham, Massachusetts.