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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar brought mental health and the feminist agenda to the fore through the frustrated eyes of an aspiring writer trying to be taken seriously in misogynistic 1950s America. When exploring Esther’s spiralling descent into breakdown, Plath’s quick wit and wry observations were viewed by some critics as flippant, and the novel courted controversy for its supposed glamourisation of mental illness. As a mirror of the author’s life, it is a raw and real insight into a journey that is not exclusively harrowing and painful; there is hope and happiness too.
About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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About the Illustrator
Alexandra Levasseur is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker born in Shawinigan in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from UCR, Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration from EINA, Barcelona (2008) and a major in film animation from Concordia University, Montreal (2014). She was awarded scholarships for academic excellence from Blairmore Foundation (2013) and Turtle Creek Asset Management (2014). She has participated in several film festivals and exhibitions around the world. She lives and works in Montreal.
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Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. She studied at Smith College and then at Cambridge, where she was the recipient of a Fullbright scholarship. It was at Cambridge that she met, and later married, fellow poet Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Plath died by suicide on the 11 February 1963. Ariel (1965) and Collected Poems (1981), were both published posthumously by Ted Hughes. Collected Poems won Plath a Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
Heather Clark is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (2020), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. A former Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she is also the author The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (2006). Her work has appeared in publications including Harvard Review and The Times Literary Supplement, and she served as the scholarly consultant for the BBC documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar. She divides her time between Chappaqua, New York, and Yorkshire, England.