Esther greenwood

To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, writer Kirsty Grocott, who was once unhealthily obsessed with the troubled author’s work, re-reads the seminal book.

Sylvia Plath in The Boston Post. August 25, 1953: 7.

Buddy Willard is Esthers' catalyst in her discovery of freeing herself from the restricting world around her.

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In honour of what would be Sylvia Plath's 81st birthday on Sunday, here are some of the saddest, loveliest, truest words ever written by her.

This is Esther Greenwood, she is the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Growing up in the Boston suburbs with her mother and brother, after her father died when she was nine years old. Esther is sexy, talented, and lucky, but uncertainty plagues her, and she feels a disturbing sense of unreality.

A young Sylvia Plath.

I'm writing a book. A book that's extending me in ways I probably wouldn't have chosen. But I did. So here I am, strapped in, doing the work.

What people don’t tell you about The Bell Jar is that it’s actually a pretty funny book. You wouldn’t know unless you read it, because all the marketing that surrounds…

One of my favorite parts from "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.

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