Sylvia Plath’s copy of her novel ‘The Bell Jar’ is top lot at Bonhams auction

Sylvia Plath’s personal copy of the first edition of her only novel was the top lot in a sale of the ‘Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Property of Frieda Hughes’ sale at Bonhams.

The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in January 1963, two months before her…

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