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According to her husband, Plath began writing the novel in 1961, after publishing her first collection of poetry, The Colossus.

After she separated from Hughes, Plath moved to a smaller apartment in London, “ giving her time and place to work uninterruptedly.

Then at top speed and with very little revision from start to finish she wrote The Bell Jar ," he explained.