Princeton University: American Whig-Cliosophic Society, 1, 2n; Nassau Literary Magazine, 1, 2n
Prospect House, see Holyoke Range
Prouty, Olive Higgins, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Psychology, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Queen Elizabeth II (Ship), 1, 2, 3
Quinn, Kay, n
Racine, Jean, 1, 2, 3; Phèdre, 1; see also Phèdre (Ballet)
Racioppi, Francesca M., see Benotti, Francesca M. Racioppi
Randall, Helen Whitcomb, 1, 2n
Rank, J. Arthur, 1n
Ransom, John Crowe, 1, 2, 3, 4; ‘Equilibrists, The’; ‘Parting, without Sequel’
Raybin, Carol Lynn (‘Cal’), 1, 2n
Ray Brook (Saranac, New York), 1, 2n
Redpath, Robert Theodore Holmes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Red Shoes, The (Motion picture)
Rěves à Vendre (Motion picture)
Rich, Adrienne Cecile, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n
Riedeman, Robert George (‘Bob’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n
Riesman, David, Lonely Crowd, The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel (Boston, Massachusetts), 1, 2
Robinson, John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas), 1, 2n
Roche, Clarissa Tanner, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Roche, Paul, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n; Oedipus Plays of Sophocles, The, 1, 2, 3
Rock Harbor Creek (Eastham, Massachusetts)
Roget, Peter Mark, see Thesaurus
Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff, Joy of Cooking, 1, 2, 3
Rome, Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Romer, Alfred Sherwood, Man and the Vertebrates
Ronsard, Pierre de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rosenthal, M. L. (Macha Louis), 1, 2, 3n
Roth, Philip, Goodbye, Columbus
Rousseau, Henri Julien Félix, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London, England), 1, 2n
Saint Botolph’s Review, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
St Pancras Hospital (London, England), 1, 2
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David); Catcher in the Rye, The; Seymour: An Introduction; ‘Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut’
Saltonstall Ridge (East Haven, Connecticut), 1, 2n
San Lorenzo del Escorial (Spain)
Saratoga Springs, New York, see Plath, Sylvia (walking of); Yaddo
Sassoon, George Thornycroft, 1, 2, 3n
Sassoon, Richard Laurence, 1n
in France with SP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
SP deserted by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
SP’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
SP’s descriptions of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
SP’s love of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 mentioned, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1n
Sassoon, Stephanie Munro, 1, 2n
Saturday Evening Post, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n
Saturday Review of Literature, 1, 2, 3n
Saxton Fellowship, see Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Fellowship
Schaffer, Sarah (‘Sally’), 1, 2n
Schendler, Sylvan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Schnieders, Marie, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Schober, Aurelia Greenwood (SP’s grandmother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n; death of, 1, 2, 3, 4; SP’s descriptions of, 1, 2; in SP’s fiction, 1, 2
Schober, Frank (SP’s grandfather), 1, 2, 3, 4n
Schober, Frank Richard (SP’s uncle), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Schober, Louise Bowman (SP’s aunt), 1, 2n
Science and Health, see Eddy, Mary Baker
Scollay Square (Boston, Massachusetts), 1, 2
Sears, Sallie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
‘Set the skull back about the head’, see Hughes, Ted, work (‘Childbirth’)
Seven Samurai (Motion picture)
Seventeen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Seventh Seal, The, (Motion picture)
Sewanee Review, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sex, 1, 2; sexual intercourse, 1, 2, 3, 4; sexual morality, double standard of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; see also Plath, Sylvia (sexual experiences of; sexual fantasies of; sexual feelings of)
Sexton, Anne, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Hamlet (quotations from); King Lear; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet (quotations from); Tempest, The, 1, 2; Troilus and Cressida, 3
Sherk, Kenneth Wayne, 1n
Shock therapy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; see also Plath, Sylvia (suicide attempt of); Valley Head Hospital
Shorthand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shubert Theater (New Haven, Connecticut), 1, 2n
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Single women, 1, 2, see also individuals; Lesbians
Sisson, Lois Winslow (‘Tooky’), 1, 2n
Smart, Christopher, ‘Jubilate Agno’
Smith, Joan, 1n
Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 1, 2n
Smith College, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
African Medical Scholarship Trust Fund, 1, 2n
buildings: Albright House, 1, 2n; Alumnae House; Burton Hall; College Hall, 1, 2, 3; Elizabeth Mason Infirmary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6; Faculty Club, The (10 Prospect), 1, 2; Gillett House, 1, 2n; Hatfield Hall; Haven House, 1, 2, 3, 4n; Hillyer Art Building and Art Library, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n; Hopkins House, 1, 2n; Laundry (94 State), 1, 2, 3, 4; Lawrence House, 1, 2, 3, 4n; Northrop House, 1, 2n; Park House; Sage Hall, 1, 2, 3n; Seelye Hall, 1, 2, 3, 4; Students Building; Tryon Art Gallery; Wallace House, 1n; William Allan Neilson Library, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20n
Art 13 (basic design), 1, 2, 3n
Art 210 (drawing and painting), 1, 2n, 3n
Art 315 (modern art), see Van der Poel, Priscilla Paine
Botany 11 (general botany), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n; see also Botany
English 11 (freshman English), 1, 2n; see also Smith College (SP as teacher at)
English 211 (19th and 20th century literature), 1, 2, 3n, 4
English 220 (practical writing), 1, 2n
English 36 (Shakespeare), 1n
English 39 (Milton), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
English 321 (American fiction), see Arvin, Newton
English 347 (creative writing), 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n
English 417 (American novel), 1n
English unit (medieval literature), 1, 2, 3n
English unit (modern poetry), 1, 2, 3, 4n
Government 11 (introduction to politics), 1, 2n
History 11 (general European), 1, 2, 3n
Physical Science 193 (world of atoms), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n
Religion 14 (introduction to religion), 1, 2n
Russian literature 35b (Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky), 1n
extracurricular activities: Honor Board, 1, 2n, 3; Press Board, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n; Smith Review, 1, 2, 3n; see also Northampton State Hospital
scholarships at, see Plath, Sylvia (finances)
SP as teacher at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18n
exams and grades, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
lectures, preparation 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
students, SP’s views on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
see also Plath, Sylvia (dreams about college); Smith College (English department; faculty meetings; theses)
SP’s interpersonal relations at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; see also individuals
student life: bridge, playing of, 1, 2; clothes, 1, 2, 3, 4; see also Plath, Sylvia (clothes of); fathers’ weekends; fire drills; hosiery, selling of; house dances, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6; meals; reading periods, 1, 2; snow storms, 1, 2; spring, 1, 2
theses, SP’s criticisms of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Smith Review, see Smith College (extracurricular activities)
Snake Pit, The, see Ward, Mary Jane
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1, 2
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), New Men, The
Social classes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; see also Plath, Sylvia (middle class background of)
Sophocles, 1, 2, 3; Antigone, 1, 2; Electra and Other Plays; King Oedipus, 1, 2; see also Roche, Paul
Spain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; see also Alicante; Barcelona; Benidorm; Irún; Madrid; Valencia; Villajoyosa
Spaniards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Spaulding, Lester, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Spaulding, Myrtle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Spofford, Edward Washburn (‘Ned’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1, 2
Springfield Daily News (Springfield, Massachusetts), 1, 2n
Springfield Union (Springfield, Massachusetts), 1n
Stafford, Jean, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Starbuck, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n
Starbuck, Janice King, see King, Janice
Steiner, Nancy Hunter, see Hunter, Nancy
Stendhal, Rouge et le Noire, Le
Stenotyping, see Shorthand
Stevens, Wallace, 1, 2, 3, 4; ‘Asides on the Oboe’ (quotations from)
Stewart, David Hamish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n
Stockton, Frank R., ‘The Lady, or The Tiger?’, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Strada, La by Federico Fellini (Motion picture)
Street and Smith Publications; see also Mademoiselle
Strindberg, August; Dream Play, The; Ghost Sonata, 1, 2, 3, 4; Miss Julie
Suicide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also Plath, Sylvia (suicide attempt of)
Sultan, Florence Lehman, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Sultan, Stanley, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n
Summit House, see Holyoke Range (Hadley, Massachusetts)
Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3
Sweeney, John L. (‘Jack’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
Sweeney, Maíre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Swenson, May, 1, 2, 3, 4n; Cage of Spines, A
Tavera, Antoine Michel Marie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Teasdale, Sara; ‘Mountain Water’ (quotations from)
Television, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; see also CBS; ITV Network Ltd
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1, 2, 3, 4
Thérèse, de Lisieux, Saint, 1, 2, 3
‘There was a force working’, see Woolf, Virginia (To the Lighthouse)
Thomas, Dylan, 1, 2, 3, 4; ‘Fern Hill’ (quotations from)
To Catch a Thief (Motion picture)
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), Hobbit, The; Lord of the Rings, The, 1, 2
Tolstoy, Leo; ‘Death of Ivan Ilyitch, The’
Top Withens, see Haworth, England
Tour Eiffel (Paris, France), 1, 2
Tourneur, Cyril, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Revenger’s Tragedy, The
Townsman, The (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Trafalgar Square (London, England), 1, 2, 3, 4n
Traphagen, Virginia, 1n
Truslow, Jane Auchincloss, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n
Tyrer, George D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Tyrer, Marjorie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Tyrer, Nicola, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n
University College Hospital (London, England), 1, 2n
University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; student union, 1, 2n
Valley Arena (Holyoke, Massachusetts)
Valley Head Hospital (Carlisle, Massachusetts)
Van der Poel, Priscilla Paine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n; art history course (modern art), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n
Van Druten, John, Bell, Book, and Candle
Van Voris, Jacqueline, 1, 2, 3n
Van Voris, William Hoover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Verlaine, Paul, 1; ‘Il pleure dans mon coeur’ (quotations from), 2
Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin, 1, 2, 3n
Viking Press, 1, 2; see also Cowley, Malcolm
Virginia Quarterly Review, The, 1, 2
Volkswagen automobiles, 1, 2, 3
Vox, see Instituto Vox
War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; see also Korean War
Ward, Mary Jane, Snake Pit, The
Webb, Hugh B. G., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Webster, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Duchess of Malfi, The, 1, 2, 3; White Devil, The (quotations from)
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
Weller, Susan Lynn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9n, 10n; SP’s home (26 Elmwood), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Welty, Eudora; ‘Livvie’; ‘Whistle, The’; ‘Worn Path, A’
Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, Connecticut)
Whalen family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
Wheelwright, Philip Ellis, 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘When I was young’, see Thomas, Dylan (‘Fern Hill’)
‘Where braced pig-iron’, see Lowell, Robert (‘Exile’s Return, The’)
’White thy fambles, see Joyce, James (Ulysses)
Wilbur, Richard, 1, 2, 3n; ‘Lamarck Elaborated’; ‘Mind’
Williams, Tennessee, Streetcar Named Desire, A (images from)
Wilson, Rosalind Baker, 1, 2, 3n
Wilson, Woodrow Fellowship, see Harvard University (Woodrow Wilson Fellowship)
Winthrop, Massachusetts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; in SP’s dreams, 1, 2, 3; SP’s home (92 Johnson), 1, 2
Wisconsin; see also Cornucopia, Wisconsin
Wober, Joseph Mallory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel
Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Jacob’s Room, 12; Mrs. Dalloway, 13, 14; Orlando, 15; To the Lighthouse, 16, 17; (quotations from), 18; Waves, The, 19; Writer’s Diary, A, 20; Years, The, 21, 22
World Publishing Company, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; see also Keightley, David
Writer, The (Boston, Massachusetts)
Wunderlich, Ray C., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (‘Bert’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Wylie, Philip, Generation of Vipers, 1
Yaddo (Artist’s colony), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; meals at, 1, 2; SP’s descriptions and drawings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n
Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15n
Yale University, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 1, 2n; Wrexham Trust Association, 1, 2n
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; ‘Among School Children’, 1
Yorkshire, England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also Haworth, England
Zetzel, Geraldine, see Kohlenberg, Geraldine Warburg
Zodiac, see Astrology