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• Author: Sylvia Plath
• First Published: 1963
• Type of Work: Novel
• Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction
• Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Gender roles, Authors or writers, New York City, Poetry or poets, Mental illness, College life, Reality, Women’s issues, Women, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums, Psychiatry or psychiatrists
• Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA, New England

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