What does the metaphor of the bell jar reveal about the life and work of Sylvia Plath ’55? Associate Professor of Anthropology Colin Hoag and his students have been exploring that question in a ...

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There is a reason it is a modern classic and an enduring rite of passage for generations of women. Emily Van Duyne, Plath expert and author of the upcoming book “Loving Sylvia Plath” explains that the ...

NORTHAMPTON — Sylvia Plath, the writer and poet whose 1963 novel “The Bell Jar” was a vanguard of second-wave feminism, is the core of a small but thoughtfully curated exhibit entitled “The Bell Jars: ...

Now through June 2024: The Smith College Botanic Garden presents "The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination." This collaborative exhibit sheds new light on Plath’s ...

Sylvia Plath’s ‘New’ Story Shows Us the Career That Might Have BeenMary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, released this week, was hiding in plain sight — evidence of a writer at odds with her legend.