Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobi
Sylvia Plath
Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, Cambridge
Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar
Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes's home from 1959
The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical, w
Sylvia Plath
…author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously…
First edition cover, published under Sylvia Plath's pseudonym, "Victoria Lucas".
Interior of a room at the Barbizon hotel (1942)
Illustration from The Cincinnati Post, June 12, 1971