The Bell Jar, plus various items of clothing and jewellery, made around £400,000.But the items in the Sotheby’s auction – which is estimated to make between £290,000 to £419,000 – are not only the last belongings of Plath left, and the hardest for Frieda to let go, but are arguably her most personal.
Many are everyday objects, but it’s precisely their ordinariness that makes them remarkable, by revealing aspects of Plath’s life beyond the popular myth of her as a tortured poet trapped in an abusive marriage.Many point to a madly-in-love young couple embarking together on family life (the pair met in 1956) and most speak of great happiness.
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