The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination

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 life and work while also examining the power of interspecies encounters between people and plants.

Using Smith College Special Collections materials and Plath’s literary work as a guide, "The Bell Jars" invites visitors to inhabit Lyman Plant Conservatory as Plath once did. Through cross-pollinating the humanities and natural sciences, come and examine Plath’s botanical imagination and Lyman’s role in cultivating it.

Learn more about the exhibit on the Botanic Garden website.

For more information about Sylvia Plath, see our Sylvia Plath Resource Guide.