The Resource The bell jar, Sylvia Plath
The bell jar, Sylvia Plath
Resource Information
The item The bell jar, Sylvia Plath represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The bell jar, Sylvia Plath represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- '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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 50th anniversary ed.
- Extent
- 234 p.
- Note
- "50th anniversary edition" -- cover
- Isbn
- 9780571268863
- Label
- The bell jar
- Title
- The bell jar
- Statement of responsibility
- Sylvia Plath
- Subject
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- trueSuicidal behavior
- trueBooks to movies
- Classical fiction
- Depression in women -- Fiction
- Fashion -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMental illness
- trueModern classics
- trueNervous breakdown
- truePsychological fiction
- Suicide -- Fiction
- trueWomen
- trueWomen authors, American
- trueWomen college students
- trueWomen with depression
- trueWomen with mental illnesses
- Writers -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- trueAutobiographical fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- '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
- Summary
- Presents the American poet's semi-autobiographical account of Esther Greenwood, a talented writer who struggles for intimacy and meaning in her artist life
- Biographical or historical data
- 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.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 050186
- Cataloging source
- VMOU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1932-1963
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- Plath, Sylvia
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1931-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Plath, Sylvia
- Ames, Lois
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Writers
- Fashion
- Depression in women
- Authors
- Suicide
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The bell jar, Sylvia Plath
- Note
- "50th anniversary edition" -- cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000050525735
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 50th anniversary ed.
- Extent
- 234 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780571268863
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)827950425
- Label
- The bell jar, Sylvia Plath
- Note
- "50th anniversary edition" -- cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000050525735
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 50th anniversary ed.
- Extent
- 234 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780571268863
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)827950425
Subject
- trueSuicidal behavior
- trueBooks to movies
- Classical fiction
- Depression in women -- Fiction
- Fashion -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMental illness
- trueModern classics
- trueNervous breakdown
- truePsychological fiction
- Suicide -- Fiction
- trueWomen
- trueWomen authors, American
- trueWomen college students
- trueWomen with depression
- trueWomen with mental illnesses
- Writers -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- trueAutobiographical fiction
Genre
- truePsychological fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Classical fiction
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueModern classics
- trueAutobiographical fiction
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