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Exploring The Bell Jar

Exploring The Bell Jar

I’m currently in a book club/class on Sylvia Plath, and this Sunday we start on The Bell Jar. You know I am always researching and searching for information. I found some interesting things while reading the first nine chapters.


Audio interview with Joanne Greenberg, who wrote her own mental illness memoir, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by one of the women at Mademoiselle with Sylvia, who was memorialized as a character in The Bell Jar. In this interview, she tells Joanne these interns could never look at each other again after reading The Bell Jar, and that their portrayal ended interns’ marriages, included her own.


An outline of the manuscript of The Bell Jar in Sylvia’s handwriting on Smith paper; the accompanying article explains a coda she had planned.


All of the different covers of The Bell Jar throughout its publication


The Bell Jar 50th edition and my knitting
The Bell Jar 50th edition and my knitting

All of her works:

Poetry collections:

Collected prose and novels:

Children’s books:

  • The Bed Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake

  • The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit

  • Mrs. Cherry’s Kitchen

  • Collected Children’s Stories


People leave her pens rather than flowers. That’s beautiful.

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