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

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.|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.|The 50th anniversary edition of Sylvia Plath's dark, perceptive, and groundbreaking novel, The Bell Jar, about a young woman's descent into mental illness in 1950s America.|I was supposed to be having the time of my life.When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer
But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control
She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic
The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.

Sylvia Plath