Ann Safford Mandel ’53 launched the Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf collections at Smith College by donating first editions of their work to the rare book collection, including The Bell Jar.

During the summer of 1953, Plath descended into a deep depression. These feelings are honestly described in her college journal: “Loss of perspective humor.” She was treated with poorly administered ...

And she’s almost always reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, a semi-autobiographical text that has become the ultimate signifier that a female character is either troubled, tragic or tormented.

Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, about debilitating depression. Teenagers down the ages have, and still would, relate to the story of a 16-year-old girl, who retreats from ugly reality into a ...

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing ... after her suicide attempt in 1953 (which Plath fictionalized in ...

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author, most famous for her novel The Bell Jar and for her style of ‘confessional poetry,’ in which she focused on her own personal experience and trauma ...

The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating ... An uncorrected proof of Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, was sold at auction ...