PLATH, Sylvia, as Victoria Lucas.

£16,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Bell Jar. First edition, in excellent condition, of the author's only novel. The Bell Jar was published on 14 January 1963, just five weeks before Plath's death. The pseudonym of Victoria Lucas was used to avoid offending Plath's mother, who appears in the work thinly disguised. It was not until the third edition of 1966 that the work was issued under Plath's name.

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