![]() This was definitely true for me the first time I read ‘The Bell Jar’. ![]() If you’re a fan of Plath’s cutting, confessional poetry, you might want to read The Bell Jar almost exclusively as an explanation of her struggles with depression. The novel is semi-autobiographical, taking inspiration from Plath’s own life while fictionalizing certain details. Sylvia Plath (under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”) published her first and only novel “The Bell Jar” in 1963, a mere month before taking her own life. ![]() The name Sylvia Plath instantly calls to mind the author-poet’s untimely and disturbing suicide infamously killing herself by sticking her head in an oven, Plath has become something of an icon among existentialists and people who suffer from mental illnesses alike. ![]()
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