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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 with the names of places and people changed.
Plath published only one book in her lifetime—the novel The Bell Jar—but several collected editions of her poetry, short stories, letters, and children's books were published posthumously. The Bell Jar (1963), under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" The Bed Book (children's book – 1976) The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (children's book – 1996)
Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse (October 23, 1923 – May 5, 1999), also known by her married name Ruth Beuscher, was an American psychiatrist, theologian, and Episcopal priest.. Best known for being the psychiatrist of Sylvia Plath, she corresponded with her since they met at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts following Plath's breakdown in
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.
Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published. It was first released in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. The poems of Ariel, with their free-flowing images and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier Colossus poems.
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The Bell Jar is a 1979 American drama film based on Sylvia Plath's 1963 book The Bell Jar.It was directed by Larry Peerce and stars Marilyn Hassett and Julie Harris. [2] The story follows a young woman's summer in New York working for a women's magazine, her return home to New England and her psychological breakdown within the context of the difficulties of the 1950s, including the Rosenbergs ...