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  2. The Bell Jar - Wikipedia

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    The book is often regarded as a roman à clef because the protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's experiences with what may have been clinical depression or bipolar II disorder. Plath died by suicide a month after its first United Kingdom publication. The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1967.

  3. Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

  4. List of fictional characters with bipolar disorder - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath: Character's struggles with depression were based on the ones that the author experienced herself. 1999 Marigold Westward The Illustrated Mum: Jacqueline Wilson: Also appears in the 2003 TV film adaptation.

  5. Book Review: 'Loving Sylvia Plath' attends to polarizing ...

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    In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...

  6. Sylvia Plath effect - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman, and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. [1] The effect is named after author Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at the ...

  7. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Bell Jar, 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a fictionalised account of Plath's own struggles with depression. [10] Wide Sargasso Sea, a 1966 retelling of Jane Eyre by Jean Rhys. Clans of the Alphane Moon, 1964 science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. Largely set on a world in which a lost group of former psychiatric patients have organised ...

  8. List of people with bipolar disorder - Wikipedia

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    Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only ...

  9. “Welcome to Plathville”'s Olivia Is 'in the Driver's Seat ...

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    Barry Plath (left) and Kim Plath (right) As the trailer concludes, Kim brings Barry, who jokes that things are “just like old times,” over to where her boyfriend is sitting, but leaves the two ...