Are there any Sylvia Plath fans here?

I read "The Bell Jar" around 1975 as required reading in a course I studied during under graduate work. It was alright. The instructor was a feminist and a very nice one at that. Although she was "straight" she spent a good amount of time cruising the gay bars in the Hillcrest area of San Diego as part of the work for her doctorate.

I did not find the story particularly interesting. It could very well have been written by any other neurotic girl experiencing everyday problems girls experience in finding themselves as they grow up.

What was much more interesting was an article appearing in The New Yorker during the early nineties. I cannot swear to it but it may have been written by Joan Didion. I may very well be wrong about that but her name sticks in my mind for whatever reason.

This article in The New Yorker mainly involved Plath's husband the poet laureate. And oh what a low, conniving rat he is. Yes the relationship the two had and how utterly unglamerous, unprofessional it was at times.

Anyway, whoever the woman was that wrote this fine article in The New Yorker responded to a note that I had sent to her concerning the article. It was a very nice reply and I recall her advising me how to overcome writer's block as well.

I do not believe Sylvia Plath had anything original to say. But for the feminist movement that was much mor popular then than it is today, Bell Jar would have never seen the light of day.

People knowing her, yes :Sylvia Plath