The Bell Jar
Suggestions for Further Reading
Davis, Gary. Existential and Pathological Anxiety in The Bell Jar. Maryville: Northwest Missouri State University, 1979.
Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Poems. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.
———. Letters Home. Edited by Aurelia Schober Plath. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
———. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Edited by Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor Books, 2000.
Rose, Jacqueline. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Wagner, Linda, ed. Sylvia Plath: The Critical Heritage. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.
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