The Bell Jar a book by Sylvia Plath, was first published in January 1963 under the pen name Victoria Lucas and eventually made available posthumously under her own identity. The work, a thinly veiled autobiography, explores 1950s cultural expectations of women while chronicling a young woman's mental collapse and subsequent recovery.
HarperPerennial's 2005 paperback edition's cover features Davida for the Bell Jar title created by Louis Minott in 1965 for VGC. The author's name probably uses Clarendon Bold.