31. Plath’s mother Aurelia may have been a classic American housewife, but she instilled in her daughter a love of creativity
Plath would continue to have an extremely ambivalent view of her father for the rest of her life. According to several of the poet’s biographers, it was Otto who first read to Sylvia as a young girl, inspiring her love of language and the spoken word. However, most biographers agree that it was her mother, Aurelia, who really encouraged the young Sylvia to be creative and use her imagination to describe the world around her. Aurelia also did her best to provide Sylvia and her brother with some stability, allowing them both to attend Bradford Senior High Scholl in Wellesley and obtain a solid education.