The Bell Jar

IT WAS A STRANGE, sultry SUMMER, the summer the Rosenbergs were electrocuted, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.

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female college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Authors, Treatment, Women newspaper editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Female psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works) by an author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Biographical fiction, General fiction, New York (n.y.), fiction, American literature, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, Authors, Medicine in literaturePeople

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Links outside the Open Library

- VIAF ID: 194759992 (Work)

- The Bell Jar - Wikipedia

- The 100 best novels: No. 85 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) (The Guardian)

- Dying: an introduction (The New Yorker)

- The literary ideas of Sylvia Plath's university thesis (The Atlantic)

- Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar still haunts me (The Telegraph)

- Spark Notes: The Bell Jar