Facts about The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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   Plath wrote The Bell Jar while supported by a Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Trust fellowship, completing it during her time living in England.

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   The Bell Jar ends with Esther Greenwood preparing to face a psychiatric board that will determine whether she can leave the mental institution.

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   In The Bell Jar, protagonist Esther Greenwood's experiences closely mirror Plath's own time as a guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine in New York.

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   Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar, is semi-autobiographical and draws heavily on her own mental breakdown and hospitalization in the early 1950s.

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   Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, The Bell Jar was later reissued under Sylvia Plath's real name after her death.

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