The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

This post is part of Commonplace Classics , wherein I read the books we all know and sometimes love. Sylvia Plath was an American poet whose only novel, The Bell Jar , was published pseudonymously in January 1963. Plath killed herself a few weeks later, aged 30, leaving behind two children and one husband, the English poet Ted Hughes 1 . Plath's star continued to rise after her death, particularly…