![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also been referred to as a version of The Catcher in the Rye “for girls,” which seems a bit dismissive to me, in part because The Bell Jar is a novel that even my husband, who ingests books at a much slower clip than I, has read and loved. I blame my inability to weigh in on her writing myself as a symptom of a greater problem of mine: poetry is severely underrepresented in my reading history, and Plath is foremost a poet.īut I’ve always felt particularly embarrassed about never having read Plath- a glaring hole in my education, I presume, since her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has been cited by various publications as a seminal feminist text. People wonder what Plath could have accomplished had she lived past the age of thirty, for she was an ambitious and, so I’ve been told, an extremely talented writer. ![]() Sylvia Plath is often evoked as a symbol of tragedy, depression, and a life cut short. Note: Late to the Party is a new Electric Literature series where we ask writers to read an author that, for some reason, they’ve never read. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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