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Ep 232 - The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

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The Bell Jar and Ariel's Suicide

After Ariel was published because of her then recent suicide, people looked at the subject matters of the poems and they looked at it through the lens of her recent suicide. And that's when her literary profile starts to rise. In 71 when the bell jar is published over the objections of her mother in the US, like I think I think that's when people were like ready to. People had already yeah, the edition that I read, I read the kind of like it's almost the mass market paperback. It has a forward from Francis McCullough, who's done who was at Harper when they ended up publishing the bell jar.

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