The Bell Jar

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 ...