The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath made reference to her grandmother by making "Esther Greenwood" the name of the heroine in her 1963 semi-autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar". The relationship between Plath and her daughter was a rather problematic and ambiguous one, for on the one hand they were exceptionally close to each other, and on the other hand Sylvia Plath often claimed that she hated her mother. Their relationship is portrayed in Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar", and in the poem "Medusa".