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.

As a corrective to the American edition of The Bell Jar, Aurelia Plath published a selection of her daughter’s letters in 1975. Most of Sylvia’s “smart-tongued” comments and sexual references were ...

One night in August 1953, Sylvia Plath left a note for her mother, saying that she’d gone for a walk and would be back soon.

Reissued to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth, Janet Frame’s The Edge of The Alphabet puts inner darkness into words.

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

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 2013, Ali Smith talked to Mariella Frostrup to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath's ground-breaking novel The Bell Jar. I feel that in a novel you can get in toothbrushes ...

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63), published in February 1963, shortly before her death.