The Bell Jar

Information about the author
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955, she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963); Ariel was published posthumously in 1965. Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Foreword
Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, offers an intimate, honest, and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness in 1950s America.

Summary
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

When Esther Greenwood.