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An Overview of The Bell Jar

 Chapter 3: An Overview of The Bell Jar, from the publication How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath

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Who was Sylvia Plath?

Sylvia Plath, pseudonym Victoria Lucas, (born October 27, 1932, BostonMassachusetts, U.S.—died February 11, 1963, London, England), American poet whose best-known works, such as the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences and, by extension, the situation of women in mid-20th-century America...continue reading...