Hughes, Ted (Edward James) (SP’s husband), 1, 2, 3n
clothes of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
cooking of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
depression, feelings of, 1, 2, 3, 4
driving of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
exercise of, 1, 2, 3; see also Plath, Sylvia (walking of)
finances of, see Plath, Sylvia
homes of, see individual towns
interpersonal relations with men, 1, 2, 3
interpersonal relations with North Tawton neighbors, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
interpersonal relations with women, 1, 2, 3
marriage service and anniversaries of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
nursing of SP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
personality of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
poetry and drama readings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n, 10n
reading of, 1, 2; see also individual authors
SP’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4
SP’s dependence on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
SP’s descriptions of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
in SP’s fiction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
SP’s fights with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
SP’s first meeting of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
SP’s first night with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
SP’s hugging and kissing of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
SP’s independence from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
SP’s marriage to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
SP’s nagging of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
SP’s premarital relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
SP’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
SP’s sexual experiences with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; see also, SP’s first night with
teaching of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
unemployment of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
– WORKS: ‘Acrobats’; ‘Billy Hook and the Three Souvenirs’, 1, 2; ‘Caning, The’, 1, 2; ‘Casualty, The’; ‘Childbirth’ (quotations from), 1; ‘Courting of Petty Quinnett, The’, 1, 2, 3; ‘Dick Straightup’, 1, 2; ‘Everyman’s Odyssey’; ‘Frontal’ (list of words in TH’s autograph), 1n; ‘Hag, The’, 15n; Hawk in the Rain, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; ‘Historian’; ‘House of Taurus, The’, 1, 2, 3n; How the Whale Became, 1, 2, 3, 4n; ‘I did it, I’, see ‘Law in the Country of the Cats’; ‘Law in the Country of the Cats’ (quotations from); Leonard Baskin Woodcuts and Wood-engravings (Introduction), 1, 2n; Lupercal; ‘Lupercalia’; ‘Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar, The’, 1n; Meet My Folks!, 1, 2, 3; ‘Miss Mambrett and the Wet Cellar’; ‘Of Cats’; ‘Pennines in April’; ‘Pike’, 1, 2, 3; ‘Relic’; ‘Secretary’; ‘Thought-Fox, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4n; ‘Thrushes’; ‘To Paint a Waterlily’; ‘Wind off Scout Rock, A’ (FL in TH’s autograph), 1n; Wound, The, 1, 2, 3
Hughes, William Henry (TH’s father), 1, 2, 3n
Humphrey, Robert Hills, 1, 2, 3n
Hunt, Elizabeth Ann, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Hunter, Nancy Jean, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Huws, Helga Kobuszewski, 1, 2n
Huxley, Aldous, 1, 2; Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik, 1, 2, 3; Ghosts, 1, 2, 3; Little Eyolf; When We Dead Awaken, 1, 2
‘If only something would happen’, see Plath, Sylvia, works (‘Dialogue En Route’)
‘If you compare yourself’, see Ehrmann, Max Immigrants (United States)
Ingalls, Daniel Henry Holmes, 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘Interior Castle, The’, see Teresa, of Avila, Saint
‘Into many a green valley’, see Auden, W. H. (‘As I Walked Out One Evening’)
Ionesco, Eugène, 1, 2; Amedee, 1, 2; Bald Soprano, The; Chairs, The; Jack; Lesson, The
Irún, Spain, 1n
Isherwood, Christopher, Sally Bowles, 1, 2
Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also Rome; Venice
Jack and Jill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1, 2
James, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Altar of the Dead, The; Beast in the Jungle, The; Bostonians, The, 1, 2; What Maisie Knew; Wings of the Dove, The, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jews (American), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; in SP’s dreams
Johns Hopkins University, 1, 2
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Johnson, Corbet Stephens, Jr, 1, 2n
Johnson, Wendell Stacy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Jonson, Ben, Bartholomew Fair, 1, 2, 3n
Joyce, James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; ‘Chamber Music (XXXVI)’ (quotations from); ‘Dead, The’; Finnegans Wake, 13, 14; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; SP’s thesis on, 1, 2; Ulysses, 1, 2; (quotations from), 1, 2, 3
Joy of Cooking, see Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff
Kallmann, Marlies, see Danziger, Marlies K.
Kassay, Attila A., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize, 1, 2; SP judge of, 1, 2
Kazin, Ann Birstein, see Birstein, Ann
Kenefick, Austin Walsh, Jr, 1, 2n
Kenmore Square Theater (Boston, Massachusetts)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Motion picture)
Knopf (Alfred A.) Inc., see Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Koffka, Elisabeth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Kohlenberg, Geraldine Warburg, 1, 2n
Kopp, Jane Baltzell, see Baltzell, Jane
Kramer, Arthur B., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Krook, Dorothea (‘Doris’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n
Ladies’ Home Journal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Lake Saltonstall (East Haven, Connecticut), 1, 2n
LaMar, Nathaniel D., Jr (‘Nat’), 1, 2, 3, 4n
Lameyer, Gordon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6n; in Europe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SP’s dating of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; in SP’s fiction, 1, 2, 3, 4
Lameyer, Helen Ames (Gordon’s mother), 1, 2n
Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lane, William, Rev., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; trial (obscenity), 1, 2, 3n; Man Who Died, The; Rainbow, The; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love, 17, 18; (characters from); see also Smith College (theses)
Lawrence, Seymour (‘Sam’), 1, 2n
Lesbians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also individuals
Letzte Brucke, Die (Motion picture)
Levenson, Christopher Rene, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n
Lewis, Sinclair; Arrowsmith; Main Street
Library of Congress, Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1n
Lincoln, Eleanor Terry, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Lincoln, Victoria, Celia Amberley
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
London, England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Huws’s apartment (18 Rugby), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7; see also Hughes, Ted (SP’s first night with); SP’s and TH’s apartment (3 Chalcot Square), 1, 2; SP’s apartment (23 Fitzroy); see also Trafalgar Square
London Magazine, 1, 2, 3; see also Lehmann, John
Lonely Crowd, The, see Riesman, David
Look Memorial Park (Northampton, Massachusetts), 1, 2n
Lookout Farm (South Natick, Massachusetts), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n
Lotz, Myron (‘Mike’), 1, 2, 3n; family background of, 1, 2, 3; SP’s dating of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Lowell, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9; Boston University course of, 1, 2, 3, 4n; ‘Exile’s Return, The’ (quotations from); Lord Weary’s Castle, 15, 16n; University of Massachusetts poetry reading of, 17n
Lythgoe, John Nicholas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
MacBride, Ernest William, Echinodermata
McCurdy, Philip Emerald, 1, 2, 3, 4n
McKee, Minerva, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
McLean Hospital (Belmont, Massachusetts), 1, 2, 3
Macneice, Louis, 1; ‘Aubade’ (quotations from), 2
Mademoiselle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; College Board of, 1, 2; college fiction contest of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n; SP’s guest editorship at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7; SP’s submissions to, 1, 2; SP’s and TH’s work in, 1, 2, 3
Magician, The (Motion picture)
Man and the Vertebrates, see Romer, Alfred Sherwood
Mangada, Señora, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
Marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; faithfulness in, 1, 2, 3; SP’s ideal husband, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SP’s ideal marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also Hughes, Ted (SP’s marriage to)
Marvell, Andrew, ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (quotations from)
Massachusetts, see individual towns
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Matisse, Henri, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; see also Chapelle du Rosaire
Maugham, W. Somerset, Quartet (Motion picture)
Mayo family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n; parties of, 1, 2; in SP’s fiction, 1, 2, 3
Means, Winthrop Dickinson, 1, 2n
Melville, Herman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Mardi; Moby Dick, 1, 2, 3
Mental illness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; see also individuals
Merchant Taylors’ School (London, England)
Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1, 2, 3, 4n
Meshoulem, Isaac (‘Iko’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Middlemas, Keith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1, 2
Mill Hill Club, The (West Yarmouth, Massachusetts)
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1, 2, 3, 4
Minton, Nathaniel David (‘Than’), 1, 2, 3n
Miss America Pageant, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Monteith, Charles Montgomery, 1, 2, 3n
Moore, Marianne, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Motion pictures, 1, 2, 3; see also individual titles and actors
Mount Holyoke College, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Dickinson House, 1, 2; Mary E. Woolley Hall (Chapin Auditorium); see also Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize
Mount Tom Range (Easthampton, Massachusetts)
Munich, Germany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Music, see individual composers and performers; Popular music
Myers, E. Lucas (Elvis Lucas), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, Lolita, 1, 2
Nation, The (New York, N.Y.), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also Rosenthal, M. L. (Macha Louis)
Natural childbirth, see Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
Nauset Beach (Orleans, Massachusetts)
Nauset Light Beach (Eastham, Massachusetts), 1, 2, 3
New England Poetry Club, 1, 2, 3
New Poets of England and America
New York, N.Y., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
New Yorker, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Plath’s submissions and rejections, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Plath’s work in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
see also Moss, Howard
New York Poetry Center First Publication Award
Nice, France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini (Motion picture)
Northampton, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n; Coffee Shop, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n; Rahar’s Inn, 1, 2n; SP’s and TH’s apartment (337 Elm), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28n; see also Childs Memorial Park; Look Memorial Park; Smith College; Plath, Sylvia (cycling of; walking of)
Northampton State Hospital (Northampton, Massachusetts), 1, 2, 3, 4n
North Tawton, England, 1, 2; SP’s and TH’s house (Court Green), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Norton, Charles Perry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15n, 16
Norton, Mildred Smith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Norton, Richard Allen (‘Dick’), 1n, 2
SP’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
SP’s dating of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
SP’s descriptions of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
tuberculosis and hospitalization of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
mentioned, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Norton, Shirley Baldwin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Norton, William Bunnell, 1, 2, 3n
O’Connor, Frank, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Oesterreich, Traugott Konstantin, Possession, Demoniacal and Other, 1, 2, 3n
O’Neil, Patricia Gibson, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
O’Neill, Eugene, 1, 2; Strange Interlude
Paris, France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; mentioned, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; see also Tour Eiffel
Partisan Review (Boston, Massachusetts), 1, 2, 3, 4
Perego, Giovanni, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Petersson, Robert Torsten, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Pill, Ilo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Plath, Aurelia Schober (SP’s mother), 1, 2, 3n
Hughes’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4
SP’s anger at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
SP’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
and SP’s creative writing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
SP’s descriptions of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
in SP’s dreams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
SP’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
SP’s visits with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Plath, Otto Emil (SP’s father), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7
death of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14