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Choosing figs and courage: lessons from “The Bell Jar” for 2026 | Opinion

There are books that I am never really through with, and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is one. I always know exactly where it ...
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Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...

'Previously unavailable' collection of Sylvia Plath material aquired by Yale library

The material is "likely the only major archive related to Sylvia Plath that isn’t already in an institutional library," ...
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Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated

In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood imagines her life branching out before her like a green fig-tree. Each individual fig on the branches represents a ...