11 February
’To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.’
Sylvia Plath committed suicide today in 1963. One month after the publication of The Bell Jar, her only novel where the protagonist Esther Greenwood’s life parallels Plath’s own struggle with bipolar disorder.
’Now they want to make a film
For anyone lacking the ability
To imagine the body, head in oven,
Orphaning children,
They think
I should give them my mother’s words
To fill the mouth of their monster
Their Sylvia Suicide Doll.’
My Mother, Frieda Hughes
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