Bell Jar, The

noun

1. a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath.

Example Sentences

The event is inspired by the lyric 'Paint myself a pale pink work of art' in Freddie Lewis' upcoming release 'Bell Jar / The Gallery'.

From BBC

Shaped like a bell jar, the metal airlock will attach to an available port on the outside of the ISS, creating a small rounded bump on the exterior of the orbiting lab.

From The Verge

Barnhouse had treated Plath at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., after Plath’s nervous breakdown and suicide attempt in 1953, an ordeal that was the basis of Plath’s autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar.”The two were regularly in touch for the next decade.

From Washington Post

In “The Bell Jar,” the heroine modeled on Plath calls it “the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

From New York Times

They contain few of the intensities we associate with her, the sour humor of “The Bell Jar,” the wild tenderness of her writings about her children, the “black sweet blood mouthfuls” of “Ariel,” her final book of poems, written at the pace of one or two a day before her children woke and the sun rose.

From New York Times