Ongoing is the 13th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Exhibition, Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar , which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Bell Jar . The exhibit closes on 10 March 2013. Have you yet seen  the excellent, illustrated exhibit website ? If you are free next Wednesday, 27 February, come to Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, to hear Karen V. Kukil, the Associate Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, give the Keynote Address to the exhibit. Karen's talk, " The Bell Jar at 50", is absolutely brilliant and will take place in Global Heritage Hall, Room G01.  See you there! Wait... what? Still need more temptation? Here are some of the featured items: First edition of The Bell Jar published by Heinemann in England under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas (1963) First American edition of The Bell Jar published by Harper & Row (1971) Facsimile of Sylvia Plath's holograph outline for Th...

The 13th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture/Exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar . Karen V. Kukil, Associate Curator of Rare Books at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, will present a keynote lecture, and co-ordinated the loan of about 59 Plath artifacts/manuscripts/facsimiles from the Sylvia Plath Collection, for the exhibition. Among other items in the exhibit are Plath's 1950-1953 journal, her Royal typewriter, photographs, letters, and typescripts. Karen will present her lecture " The Bell Jar at 50" on 27 February 2013, at 3:30PM Global Heritage Hall, G01, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island. The exhibit, prepared by Christine S. Fagan, the Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian at RWU, is free and open to the public and will run from 1 February to 10 March 2013. If you are anywhere near Bristol, do yourself a favor and visit the exhibit. If you are ...