The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963); Ariel was published posthumously in 1965. Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Beya Rebaï is based in Paris where she was born in 1995. Beya is a prolific artist, always with a sketchbook and wax pastels in hand. She draws on real life, her imagination and memories to create illustrations that tell a story. Her clients include Nike, Paris Airport, The Guardian and The New York Times.