Plath

To me, this new biographical information, together with Plath’s drafts and journal entries, reveals how she channeled this painful experience into her poetry.

Scholars learned about these letters only in 2017 when they suddenly came up for auction, and a subsequent lawsuit eventually awarded them to Smith College, Plath’s alma mater.

The Barbizon becomes the fictional Amazon hotel, and Plath is Esther Greenwood, the narrator.

Ten years after her stay at the Barbizon and weeks after she published “The Bell Jar” in 1963, Plath stuck her head in the oven.

Plath wrote of her experience in “The Bell Jar,” her only novel.

There are also essays on Jean Rys, Sylvia Plath, the Brontës, and Henry Roth.

Who could not wonder what Plath might have achieved if she had been given even a decade more to write?

And the unhip multitudes it contains include Disney, Salinger, and Sylvia Plath.

I wanted something that connects Walt Disney and J.D. Salinger and Buddy Holly and Sylvia Plath to what we now know as Twee.

Yes, I confess that Plath putting her head into the oven, too, was portrayed.