Plath, Sylvia
abortions of, see Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
archives of: at Indiana University, 1n, 2, 3; at Smith College, 1, 2, 3
automobiles of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
bird, nursing and asphyxiating of, 1, 2
body image of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
broken leg of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
buttons and bobby pins, dislike of, 1, 2, 3, 4
childbirths of, see Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
childhood of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
circadian rhythms of, 1, 2, 3, 4
clothes of: blouses, 1, 2, 3; coats, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; colors and fabrics, SP’s favorite, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; dresses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; evening gowns, 1, 2; footwear, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; handbags, 1, 2, 3; hosiery and underwear, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; maternity, 1, 2, 3, 4; overalls, 1, 2; scarves and gloves, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; shorts, 1, 2; skirts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; sleepwear, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; suits; swimwear; trousers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
cooking of; in Benidorm, Spain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; in Boston, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; in Cambridge, England; in Eastham, Massachusetts (Cape Cod), 1, 2; in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; (dinners and parties), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; in North Tawton, Devonshire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; in Swampscott, Massachusetts (Mayo family), 1, 2, 3
correspondence of; see also individuals
creative writing of, see Creative writing of Plath
cycling of: Cambridge, England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut, 1, 2; Northampton, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4
dating of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Cambridge University men, 1, 2; Wellesley (Massachusetts) men, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; see also individuals
depression, feelings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; see also Plath, Sylvia (emotions; madness; panic; suicidal feelings of)
diet of, see Food; Plath, Sylvia (cooking of)
drawings and paintings of, 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, 32n, 33n, 34n
dreams of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; about college, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; about creative writing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; nightmares, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
drinking of: adult, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; graduate student, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; undergraduate student, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
driving of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
education of, see Cambridge University; Plath, Sylvia (graduate degrees); Smith College
emotions of
anger, 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; see also Plath, Aurelia (SP’s anger at)
crying, 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
happiness, 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, 36, 37, 38, 39
jealousy and envy, 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, sadness and despair, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
exercise of, 1, 2, 3; see also individual exercises
fears of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
feminism of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
creative writing and readings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
flowers, selling of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
teaching, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
graduate degrees, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
hair of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
homes of, see individual towns and cities
hygiene of, 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
ideal life, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also Marriage
infertility, see Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
interpersonal relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; with men, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; with women, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also individuals; Cambridge University (SP’s interpersonal relations at); Plath, Sylvia (dating of); Smith College (SP’s interpersonal relations at)
introspection of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
languages, learning of, 1, 2; see also individual languages
loneliness of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
madness, feelings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
marriage of, see Hughes, Ted (SP’s marriage to)
menstruation of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
middle class background of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
panic, feelings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
acting (behavior), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
enthusiasm, intensity, vigor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
individualism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
perfectionism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
wit and humor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
pets of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, see also Plath, Sylvia (bird)
philosophical beliefs of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
piano playing of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and politics, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
pregnancies of, see Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
present, living in the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
professions, contemplated by SP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; see also Plath, Sylvia (teaching of)
program to win friends and influence people
reading of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; aloud, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; lists of books, 1, 2, 3; newspapers and periodicals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also individual authors
recordings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6n, 7n
religious beliefs of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
self-confidence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
self-perception, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; see also Plath, Sylvia (body image)
sexual experiences of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19; see also individual men; Plath, Sylvia (dating of)
sexual fantasies of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
sexual feelings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
sinusitis, colds, and fevers of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; see also Plath, Sylvia (pneumonia of); Pregnancies and childbirths of SP (milk fever)
sleep of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22; insomnia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; naps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
suicidal feelings and fantasies of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
suicide attempt and treatment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; see also McLean Hospital; Shock therapy; Valley Head Hospital
swimming and suntanning of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
teaching of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; see also Smith College (SP as teacher at)
and time, swift passage of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
walking of; in Boston, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; in Cambridge, England, 1, 2, 3; on Cape Cod, 1; in London, England; in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; in North Tawton, England, 1, 2, 3; in Paris, France, 1, 2, 3, 4; in Saratoga Springs, New York (Yaddo), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; in Wellesley, Massachusetts; in Winthrop, Massachusetts; see also Benidorm, Spain
– WORKS:
‘Across the street carpenters hammer on roof’ (FL)
‘Alley, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2
‘All the Dead Dears’ (short story), 1, 2n
‘Among the Bumblebees’, see ‘Two Gods of Alice Denway, The’
‘Among the Narcissi’ (images from)
‘And Summer Will Not Come Again’ (references to), 1, 2, 3n
‘August Lighthill and the Other Women’ (short story plot)
‘Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer’
Bed Book, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
‘Bee Meeting, The’ (images from)
Bell Jar, The, 1, 2n, 3; see also ‘Day I Died, The’; ‘Lazarus My Love’
‘Big Dreamer, The’ (short story plot)
‘Blue-painted and metallic animal’ (FL)
‘Bull of Bendylaw, The’ (poem), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Bull of Bendylaw, The’ (provisional book title), 1, 2, 3
‘Champion Spinach-Picker, The’ (short story plot)
‘Change-About in Mrs. Cherry’s Kitchen’, 1, 2
‘Circus in Three Rings’ (poem)
‘Circus in Three Rings’ (provisional book title)
‘Click-click; tick-tick’ (FL), see ‘Neveryou’
Colossus and Other Poems, The, 1, 2, 3; see also ‘Bull of Bendylaw, The’; ‘Devil of the Stairs, The’; ‘Earthenware Head, The’; ‘Full Fathom Five’; ‘Two Lovers and a Beachcomber’
‘Dark Marauder’ (short story plot)
‘Daughters of Blossom Street, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; (images from), 1
‘Day I Died, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2
‘Day of the Twenty-four Cakes, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2, 3
‘Den of Lions’ (references to), 1, 2, 3n
‘Devil of the Stairs, The’ (provisional book title), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
‘Diabolic Sister’ (short story plot)
‘Dialogue En Route’ (quotations from)
‘Dialogue Over a Ouija Board’, 1, 2, 3, 4n; (quotations from), 1
‘Discontented Mayor, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2
‘Disquieting Muses, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Down the hall comes Mary, bearing sheets’ (FL)
‘Dream with Clam-Diggers’ (images from), 1, 2n
‘Earthenware Head, The’ (provisional book title), 1, 2, 3, 4; see also ‘Lady and the Earthenware Head, The’
‘Electra on Azalea Path’, 1, 2
‘Emmet Hummel and the Hoi Polloi’ (short story plot)
‘Eye-Beam, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2
‘Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers’ (images from)
‘Falcon Yard’ (unpublished novel), 1 chapters and scenes from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
plot of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
style of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 see also Creative writing of Plath (novels)
‘Fifteen-Dollar Eagle, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Fifty-ninth Bear, The’, 1, 2, 3
‘Four Corners of a Windy House’ (short story plot)
‘Fringe-Dweller, The’ (short story plot)
‘Full Fathom Five’ (provisional book title), 1, 2, 3
‘Great Big Nothing, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2, 3, 4
‘In the Mountains’ (images from)
It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit, The, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; (images from), 1
‘Kid Colossus, The’ (short story title)
‘Lady and the Earthenware Head, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Laundromat Affair, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Lazarus My Love’ (short story plot)
‘Leaves from a Cambridge Notebook’, 1, 2n
‘Little Mining Town in Colorado, The’, 1, 2
‘Lonesome Park, The’ (children’s book plot), 1, 2
‘Lord Baden-Powell and the Mad Dogs’ (short story plot)
Magic Mirror, The, 1n
‘Mama McFague and the Corn Vase Girl’, see ‘Mrs. McFague and the Corn Vase Girl’
‘Manor Garden, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘Matisse Chapel, The’, 1, 2, 3n
‘Max Nix’, see It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit, The
‘Mental nausea of daily squash’ (FL)
‘Mindless April leaves heave sighs, The’ (FL)
‘Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper’ (draft)
‘Mother’s Helper, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Mrs. McFague and the Corn Vase Girl’ (short story plot), 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Mules That Angels Ride’ (provisional poem title), 1, 2, 3
‘Mummy, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
‘Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Night Walk’ see ‘Hardcastle Crags’
‘Nocturne’ see ‘Hardcastle Crags’
‘Olympians, The’ (short story plot)
‘On the Decline of Oracles’, 1, 2
‘Pie-Server Incident, The’, see ‘Silver Pie Server, The’
‘Pillars, The’ (short story plot), 1, 2, 3
‘Poem for a Birthday’, 1, 2, 3
‘Point Shirley’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Private Ground’ (images from)
‘Prospect of Cornucopia, A’, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Shiny beetle-coated cars, The’ (FL)
‘Silver Pie Server, The’, 1, 2, 3
‘Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer’, 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘Slime of all my yesterdays, The’ (FL), see ‘April, 18’
‘Snow Circus, The’ (short story plot)
‘Snowman on the Moor, The’ (images from)
‘Sonnet: Van Winkle’s Village’
‘Stone Boy with Dolphin’ (characters from), 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘Suicide off Egg Rock’, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Sunday at the Mintons’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
‘Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit’ (images from)
‘Sweetie Pie and the Gutter Men’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
‘Tattooist, The’, see ‘Fifteen-Dollar Eagle, The’
‘They have made their cities’ (FL)
‘This Earth Our Hospital’, see ‘Daughters of Blossom Street, The’
‘Town on a Very Steep Hill’ (children’s book plot)
‘Trouble-making Mother, The’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Two Gods of Alice Denway, The’
‘Two Lovers and a Beachcomber’ (provisional book title), 1, 2, 3n
‘Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea’ (quotations from)
‘Van Winkle’s Village’, see ‘Sonnet: Van Winkle’s Village’
‘Walk to Withens, A’, 1, 2, 3, 4; see also Brontë family; Haworth, England
‘Watching the Water-Voles’, 1, 2, 3
‘Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows’, 1, 2
‘Whiteness I Remember’ (images from), 1, 2
‘Winter Landscape, with Rooks’
World of Sound, A (Broadcast), 1n
‘Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies’, 1, 2, 3, 4
see also Creative writing of Plath
Plath, Warren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25n; in SP’s dreams, 1, 2, 3
Plumer, Davenport III (‘Mike’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Plumer, Marcia Brown, see Brown, Marcia
Popular music: folk; jazz and blues, 1, 2; songs: ‘Girl That I Marry, The’; ‘Here We Go, Looby-Loo’; ‘Ja-da’; ‘Liza’ by George Gershwin; ‘Lorelei, Die’; ‘Mountain Greenery’; ‘On Top of Old Smoky’; ‘Serenade’, 1, 2; ‘Silent Night’; ‘Smile’; ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’; ‘Wonderful Guy, A’; street music and musicians; see also individual composers and performers
Powley, Elizabeth Jane, 1, 2, 3
Pregnancies and childbirths of SP
abnormal fetuses, fear of, 1, 2, 3
childbirth, views on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
children, SP’s views on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
names for children, 1, 2, 3, 4