Who wrote The Bell Jail?
The novel of attempted suicide and recovery The Bell Jail was written by Sylvia Plath, but was first published under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas in 1963.
It did not appear under the author’s name until 1966.
The novel of attempted suicide and recovery The Bell Jail was written by Sylvia Plath, but was first published under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas in 1963.
It did not appear under the author’s name until 1966.
The Japanese novel The Tale of Genji was written by court lady Murasaki Shikibu around 1000. It was first translated into English by Arthur Waley in 1925-33. It is widely thought of as the world’s first novel. This Japanese novel was written by court lady Murasaki Shikibu around 1000. It was first translated
In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), Thetis, a sea nymph is Achilles’ mother.
Hesiod, the reputed author of the Theogony, the oldest surviving account of the origin of the Greek gods, was a poor Boeotian farmer of the eighth century B.C. His Works and Days gives advice on fanning and moral life.
Anne Tyler’s first novel was If Morning Ever Comes (1965), written in her early twenties. Born in 1941, Tyler was respected by critics but did not become widely known until Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in 1982.
The name of Miss Havisham’s house in Dickens’s Great Expectations is Satis House.
The longest-running play in theater history is The Mousetrap (1952) by Agatha Christie, which has never closed on the British stage. It was adapted from one of Christie’s stories.