However, The Bell Jar is a reflection of gender roles in the 1950s therefore, it is appropriate to conduct a feminist reading of this novel. The novel was republished in Plath’s name in England in 1966, and published in America in 1971. Using a pseudonym also helped hide the parallels between Plath and Esther Greenwood’s lives. Plath was concerned that the novel, which could be read as autobiographical, could anger family and friends, since some characters were based-very loosely-on living people, Plath had decided to play it safe and release the novel under a pseudonym (Alexander, 268). Also, her novel depicts the lives of people in her life: Her poetry was not selling well, and she was afraid her novel would meet the same unlucky literary fate. Plath first published The Bell Jar in England, under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, in 1963. She left behind two children, a divorced husband, countless poems, and one novel: The Bell Jar. On the morning of February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath committed suicide in her flat in London, England.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |