The Bell Jar

Description:

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.

subjects: women college students,  summer,  Classics,  Literature,  Psychology,  Feminism,  Novel,  Poetry,  Mental Health,  American,  Adult,  Fiction,  Mental Depression,  Suicidal behavior,  Mentally ill,  Psychiatric hospital patients,  Mental illness,  Women authors,  Treatment,  Women periodical editors,  College students,  Suicide,  Psychological fiction,  Autobiographical fiction,  Roman à clef,  open_syllabus_project,  Women psychotherapy patients,  Fiction, psychological,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Young women, fiction,  Students, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Depression, mental, fiction,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, general,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  American literature,  Interns,  Women's periodicals,  Electroconvulsive therapy,  Sexism,  Depression in women,  Authors,  Medicine in Literature

People: Esther Greenwood,  Buddy Willard,  Betsy,  Constantin,  DeeDee,  Doctor Gordon,  Doctor Nolan,  Dodo Conway

Places: New York City,  Adirondacks,  Boston,  United States,  Belsize

Times: 1953,  1950s