![]() ![]() Perhaps Plath needed that rosy cast in order to divulge some of her most intimate thoughts and experiences in the semi-autobiographical novel that was largely based on her struggle with depression and whose characters were unabashed facsimiles of her mother, a close friend and a college sweetheart. ![]() Memorial Lecture Series, celebrating the 50 th anniversary of “The Bell Jar.” Each academic year this series offers the opportunity to study in depth a single text and to investigate why such significant literary works as “Moby Dick,” “Huckleberry Finn” and “Walden” remain relevant to modern readers. ![]() ![]() Kukil offered insight into Plath’s writing process and life for the 13 th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Kukil, Smith’s associate curator of special collections, including the college’s collection of Plath’s writings. Plath stole the pink paper from her alma mater, Smith College, because “she thought it would giver her novel a rose cast,” said Karen V. For the haunting portrayal of the descent into insanity that is “The Bell Jar,” author Sylvia Plath was both disciplined enough to write 1,000 words a day and a touch romantic in penning it on pink paper. ![]()
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