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S. S. Pierce (store), 46
Sacramento, California, 343n, 347
Sagar, Keith, Ted Hughes: A Bibliography, 269n
Saint Botolph’s Review, 34, 72, 77, 85n, 86, 299, 375n, 431
St George-the-Martyr (London), 38, 456, 849
St George’s Gallery (London), 760n
St Ives, England, 819n, 861, 904, 905n, 939
Saint Lawrence River, 332
Saint Marys River (Michigan and Ontario), 335
St Pancras Council (London), 624
St Pancras Hospital (London), 581–8, 594, 597, 872
Saint-Céré, France, 631n
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, The Little Prince, 653n
Salt Lake City, Utah, 336, 341n, 342–3, 346
Salter, Elizabeth, 63–4, 69
San Francisco, California, 336–7, 344, 347–8, 351, 666
Sappho (Greek poet), 889
Sappho (Plath family cat), 293, 297, 302, 350, 359, 362, 366, 374, 379, 388, 401, 404, 416, 418, 435, 438, 453, 466–7, 469–70, 472, 477, 484–5, 505, 514, 517, 529, 569
Saratoga Springs, New York, 296, 298, 309–10, 313, 354–7, 360
Sarton, May, 621
Sarraute, Nathalie, 690n
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 278, 437, 503; Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, 503
Sasek, M. (Miroslav), This is Venice, 676n
Sassoon, George, 65–6, 91, 100, 115, 119–20, 140, 146
Sassoon, Richard Laurence, 66n, 236, 798
Sassoon, Siegfried, 66, 91, 120
Sassoon, Stephanie Munro, 65–6, 91, 100, 115, 119–20, 140, 146
Saturday Evening Post, The, 103, 161, 164, 169, 548, 566
Saturday Review of Literature (‘SRL’), 75n, 112, 198
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, 332–7
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 332–6
Savile Club, 885n
Saxton Fellowship, see Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Fellowship
Scandinavia, 261
Scandinavians, 38
Scannell, Vernon, 513n, 887, 890
Schendler, Sylvan, 196
Schober, Aurelia Greenwood (‘Grammy’, SP’s maternal grandmother), 37, 80, 90, 98, 116, 259, 358, 388, 516, 531, 536, 634, 707, 717, 725, 737, 746, 774, 831; cancer of, 37; death of, 37
Schober, Elizabeth, 475, 734; SP’s correspondence with, 741–2
Schober, Esther, see McCue, Esther Schober Schober, Frank (‘Grampy’, SP’s maternal grandfather), 28, 37, 42, 47, 52, 117, 139, 147, 193, 199, 237, 253, 270–1, 390, 453, 466, 496, 498, 502, 531, 640, 643, 652, 697, 725, 814, 949; SP’s correspondence with, 342, 531n, 543–4, 642
Schober, Frank Richard (‘Frankie’, SP’s uncle), 29, 55, 113–14, 390, 453, 929, 949
Schober, Louise Bowman (SP’s aunt), 29, 113–14, 453, 949
Schoenhof’s Foreign Book (firm), 260n
Schubert, Franz, Gretchen am Spinnrade, 611n
Schumann, Clara, 531
Scotland, 97, 214, 217, 432, 565, 757
Scotsman, 968n
Scott, Ira O., 46
Scott, Ford & Co., 388, 391, 396, 404–5, 412, 419
Scott, Zachary, 302
Sears, Sallie, 188
Seattle, Washington, 579
Secker-Walker, David, 606, 941
Secker-Walker, Joanna, 606, 630, 941
Secker-Walker, Lorna M., 606, 630, 927, 940n, 941
Secker-Walker, Sebastian, 928n, 941
Segovia, Andrés, 218n
Seidel, Frederick, 137n
Selden, George, The Cricket in Times Square, 672n
Selfridges (firm), 432, 634
Sendak, Maurice, 328
Seuss, Dr, 665n, 672n, 771n, 896n; The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, 672; Horton Hatches the Egg, 665, 856, 896n; One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, 771n
Seven Lively Arts, The, 272n
Seventeen (‘17’), 16, 89, 319
Sewanee, Tennessee, 273, 311, 337, 349, 427
Sewanee Review, The, 112, 156, 164, 187, 207, 217, 270, 286, 328, 349, 372, 375n, 427, 475, 526, 818, 819n; SP’s correspondence with, see Spears, Monroe Kirk; SP’s work in, 270n, 325, 424–5, 475n, 526, 660, 718; TH’s work in, 156n
Sex, 791, 798, 804–6, 852, 876–7, 879, 968
Sexton, Anne, 303, 596, 682; All My Pretty Ones, 812; ‘The Black Art’, 812; ‘The Image’, 303n; ‘Elegy in the Classroom’, 575; ‘Elizabeth Gone’, 303n; ‘Flight’, 812; ‘For God While Sleeping’, 812; ‘Kind Sir: These Words’, 627n; ‘Lament’, 812; ‘Letter Written During a January Northeaster’, 812; ‘Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound’, 812; ‘Old’, 812; ‘The Road Back’, 303n; ‘Some Foreign Letters’, 303n, 627n, 682; ‘The Sun’, 812n; ‘Sunbathers’, 303n; To Bedlam and Part Way Back 575; ‘Water’, 812; ‘Woman With Girdle’, 812; ‘You, Doctor Martin’, 303n; SP’s correspondence with, 575–6, 812
Shahn, Ben, 163, 316
Shakespeare, William, 36, 186, 253, 279, 281, 292, 581, 799, 950; As You Like It, 95; The Complete Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, 950n; Coriolanus, 186n; Hamlet, 950n; Romeo and Juliet, 609, 614; The Tempest, 581
Shapiro, Karl, 94
Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, 1960, 462
Sheraton, 323
Sheets, Madeline Redmond, 388, 468
Sherwood, Joan M., 536n
Sherwood, John, 536n
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, The, 40
Shorthand, 268, 301, 309n, 499, 542, 571, 573
Siberia (Russia), 111, 118
Sigal, Clancy, Weekend in Dinlock, 482n
Sigmund, Elizabeth, 581n, 767n, 777n, 796, 814, 839; SP’s correspondence with, 820; Sylvia Plath in Devon, 777n
Sigmund, William, 581n
‘Signs of an All Too Correct Compassion’, 509n
Silkin, Jon, 902n
Sillitoe, Alan, 429n, 440, 592, 641, 647, 653, 659, 676, 686, 737, 769, 772, 775–6, 822, 845, 859, 863, 880–2, 915; Key to the Door, 647n; The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner, 592n; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 592n, 641; SP’s correspondence with, 761–2, 766; SP’s dedications to, 915
Sillitoe, David, 737, 761, 769, 772, 775–6, 822, 882, 915, 947; SP’s dedications to, 915
Sillitoe, Ruth, see Fainlight, Ruth
Silvers, Robert B., 393n, 513n; SP’s correspondence with, 753
Simmons College (Boston, Mass.), 56
Simpson, Louis, 305n, 666–7, 712n; ‘Carentan O Carentan’, 627n; ‘The Dream House’, 627n; ‘My Father in the Night Commanding No’, 667n
Sinclair, Andrew, 362
Singer sewing machines, 514, 527, 535, 538, 545, 644, 657, 663, 675, 693
Sitwell, Edith, 305, 857n
Skelton, Robin, 385n
Skidmore College, 362
Skjold, Anita, 777n
Skunky-Bunks (Hughes family cat), 856, 860–1, 929, 934, 956, 958
Slug Death, 740, 743, 770
Slugit, 740, 743, 770
Smith, Alison Vera, 114
Smith, Constance see Whitman, Constance Smith
Smith, Cythina Sanborn (‘Big Cynthia’), 431
Smith, Janet Adam, 218n
Smith, Stevie 907n; Not Waving But Drowning, 907n; A Novel on Yellow Paper, 907; SP’s correspondence with, 907
Smith, W. Roger, 660; SP’s correspondence with, 423, 436, 664, 908
Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 87, 425; SP’s work in, 425n, 660
Smith College, 8n, 11, 17n, 22–3, 25, 32–3n, 37n, 39, 43, 45, 47, 51n, 52, 54, 56, 58, 61–2, 70, 77, 87, 88n, 89–90, 92–4, 96, 99, 107–8, 110, 113–14, 128n, 129–31, 133, 135, 137, 144, 147, 149, 153, 156, 163, 165, 174n, 175, 181, 187, 188, 196, 200n, 206, 208, 212, 216–17, 219, 234, 236, 255, 266, 271, 274, 277–8, 283, 300, 306, 310, 315, 3u25, 371, 408, 429, 472, 492, 512, 519, 526, 620, 656, 684, 701, 723, 767n, 781, 897, 905, 911–12, 930n, 951; administration of, 61; Alumnae Association, 619; buildings: Art Library, 212n, 215, 222; Elizabeth Mason Infirmary, 45; Hatfield Hall, 174n; Haven House, 33n, 37n; Hillyer Hall, 212n, 215, 222; Hopkins H
ouse, 114n; Lawrence House, 45n, 51n, 128n, 457n; Museum of Art, 215, 222; Sage Hall, 204n, 206n, 209n; Seelye Hall, 174n; William Allan Neilson Library, 174–5, 181, 234, 248; courses: Art 315 (modern art), 212, 215, 220, 222; see also Van der Poel, Priscilla Paine; Courses: English 11 (freshman English), 39, 88, 108, 110, 131, 149n, 155, 156n, 181, 184, 216, 220, 312, 315n, 325; see also Smith College (SP as teacher at); English 39 (Milton), 926n; English 41b (special studies, poetry), 92n, 781; English 220 (practical writing), 315n; English 314 (English novel), 174n; English 321b (American fiction), 208n, 215, 220, 240, 249; English 417b (20th century novel), 54n; Government 11 (introduction to politics), 17n; Faculty Club, 206; memorandum paper, 210, 216, 218, 220, 222, 223n, 226, 248, 258, 267, 270, 331, 356, 358, 362, 364, 413, 781, 907n; Paradise Pond, 216, 255; Phi Beta Kappa, 13, 42; Purchasing Office, 171; Relief Committee, 204n, 209n; SP as teacher at, 87–90, 108, 110, 131, 149, 151, 174, 181, 183–4, 189, 195, 197, 200–2, 204–6, 208–9, 213–14, 216, 218–19, 222, 226, 229, 236, 238, 240, 278–80, 312, 325; Vocational Office, 76, 277, 315, 492; SP’s correspondence with, 76; see also Davis, Alice Norma
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), ‘The Marsh’, 627n; ‘Operation’, 627n
Snyder, Donald, 123n
Sobiloff, Hyman J. (‘Hy’), 235, 241
Socrates, 9, 135, 685
Soho (London), 409, 414–15, 431, 461, 464, 622, 657, 958, 961, 965
Solomon, Hyde, 357n
Somerset Maugham Award, 307, 441–2, 444, 448, 451, 454, 471, 474, 476, 479, 502, 513, 520, 524, 532, 539, 547, 561, 569, 571, 574, 591, 593, 610, 623, 634–5, 705, 822
Somerville, John, 923n
Sonnenberg, Ben, 632, 822
Soo Locks, Michigan, 335
Sophocles, 188, 214, 215, 312; Antigone, 214n, 279, 473; Oedipus Rex, 214n, 279, 281
Sotheby’s (firm), 553n
Sound News Recordings, 908n
South Africa, 217n, 429, 444
South America, 703
South Devon, England 589, 825n
South Yorkshire Times, 560n
Southampton, England, 150n, 367n, 372, 374
Spain, 20, 38–9, 86, 306, 318, 591, 813–14, 822, 829n, 833, 844, 958, 965, 968
Sparks, Nevada, 344
Spaulding, Annabelle, 167n
Spaulding, Lesta, 167n
Spaulding, Lester, 42, 80, 82, 155
Spaulding, Myrtle, 42, 74, 80, 82, 155, 158–9, 161–2, 166–7, 169, 270–1, 416, 462, 505–6, 531, 545
Spaziani, Maria Luisa, 519
Speare, Elizabeth George, 310; The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 310n; The Bronze Bow, 310n
Spears, Betty Greene, 349n, 427
Spears, Monroe Kirk, 112n, 270n, 475n; SP’s correspondence with, 311, 427
Spectator, The, 160, 168, 164, 263–4, 269, 304, 325, 425, 461; SP’s work in, 325n, 425, 660, 718; TH’s work in, 263n
Spender, Harold, 531
Spender, Natasha, 464, 469, 480, 486, 533, 554, 576
Spender, Stephen, 17, 22, 71–2, 77, 83, 98, 108, 110, 132, 136, 185, 428n, 464, 469, 480, 484, 486, 488, 491, 531, 533, 537, 539, 554, 576; ‘Oxford and Cambridge Poetry’, 83
Sphere, 968n
Spier, Peter, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Evening, 707n
Spock, Benjamin (‘Dr Spock’), 410, 463, 465m 472, 496, 771n; Baby & Child Care, 410n, 465; Dr Spock Talks with Mothers, 771n; ‘You Can Have Fun With Your Children’, 397n
Springfield, Mass., 229–30, 357, 476
Stafford, Jean, 323n
Stafford, William, 618, 627n, 712n; ‘In the Oregon Country’, 618n, 627n; ‘A Survey’, 618n, 627n; ‘The Well Rising’, 618n, 627n; West of Your City, 618n
Stanford-Binet Test, 688
Stanford University Press, 105
Starbuck, George, 303, 328n, 420, 576n, 596, 812; ‘Ab Ovo’, 627n; Bone Thoughts, 328
Starbuck, Janice King, 303n
Starbuck, John Edward, 303n
Starbuck, Margaret May, 303n
Starbuck, Stephen George, 303n
State University of New York at Buffalo, 263–4, 485n; Poetry Collection, 263n 264
Statler Hotel, see Boston Park Plaza Hotel Statue of Liberty National Monument, 25, 85
Steel, John, 791n, 793, 798, 835
Stein, Joan Workman, 348
Stein, Roger B., 348
Steinberg, Peter K., 17n
Steiner, Nancy Hunter, 51, 89, 236
Stendhal, 107
Stern, Ernest, 33n
Stern, Marcia B. (‘Marty’), 114, 171, 229, 266, 300, 361, 445, 453, 456, 497, 514, 516, 522, 530, 531n, 572, 580, 599, 738, 809, 814, 859, 863, 942, 948, 963; marriage of, 35n; SP’s correspondence with, 33–8, 109–11, 162–4, 409–13, 447–9, 692–5, 950–2, 964–6
Stevenage, England, 923, 927n; Arts Centre, 923
Stevens, Wallace, 94
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Erving), 10; ‘Text of Stevenson Speech of Welcome to Convention’, 10n
Stinson Beach, California, 348
Stobbs, William, 771n
Stompanato, Johnny, 228n
Stonehenge (England), 476, 632
Stoughton, Mass., 103
Strauss, Harold, 770n
Stravinsky, Igor, 469
Strindberg, August, 121, 178, 214–16; A Dream Play, 214n; The Ghost Sonata, 214n; Miss Julie, 214n, 279
Sudbury (Ontario), 332–4n
Suez Canal (Egypt), 6, 9
Suicide, 327, 368n, 567, 684, 849, 851, 861, 868, 871, 878; see also Plath, Sylvia (suicide attempt of) Sultan, Florence Lehman, 188
Sultan, James Lehman, 188n
Sultan, Sonia, 188n
Sultan, Stanley, 188, 239, 579n; ‘The Art of Ulysses’, 239n; ‘The Fugue of the Fig Tree’, 239n
Summers, Hal, ‘Songs from a Revue’, 577n
Sumner Tunnel, 131
Sunday Telegraph (London), 606n, 968n
Sunday Times (London), 95, 112, 117, 134, 136, 385n, 473n, 488, 491, 581, 592, 595, 607, 609, 614, 640, 653n, 777n, 788, 890; TH’s work in 581n, 653n
Sunday Times Rose Bouquet, The, 777n
Superior, Lake, 335, 338–9
Surrey (England), 434, 514n, 809, 961
Sussex (England), 515
Sutcliffe’s Inn, 506, 628
Swarthmore College, 56, 58, 70
Swedish translations, 732, 739, 764
Sweeney, John L. (‘Jack’), 192–3, 229, 231n, 237, 244, 510, 531n, 638n, 801, 816, 821, 833, 885, 893; SP’s correspondence with, 231, 638–9; TH’s correspondence with, 639n
Sweeney, Maíre, 192n, 229, 231, 531n, 801, 816, 833, 885
Sweet Home, Oregon, 944
Swenson, May, 305, 357n, 621; ‘Almanac’, 621n, 627n, 639; Another Animal, 621n; ‘At Breakfast’, 621; ‘By Morning’, 621; A Cage of Spines, 621n; ‘Frontispiece’, 305n; ‘The Garden at St. John’s’, 305n; ‘The Key to Everything’, 305n; ‘Question’, 305n
‘Sylvia Plath Is Betrothed to Mr. Hughes’, 20n
‘Sylvia Plath Wed in England to Mr. Hughes’, 14n
Symmons, Robert, 146n
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), Collected Works: Poems, 846n
T Wharf (Boston, Mass.), 550
Tabernacle (Salt Lake City,), 344
Tabor, Stephen, Ted Hughes: A Bibliography, 269n
Tahoe, Lake (California and Nevada), 344, 347
Tangier, Morocco, 822n, 859
Tanis Brothers, 704n
Tarcy, A., 908n
Targett, May Collacott, 180
Tarot (game), 4, 378, 888, 905, 924
Tate Gallery, 510n
Taw, River (England), 639, 681
Taylor, Eleanor Ross, SP’s correspondence with, 572
Taylor, Elsie, 689, 765, 826
Taylor, Peter, 572n
Teddington (London), 580n
Television, 24, 33, 41, 47, 50, 119, 153, 188, 194, 212, 239, 244, 279, 419, 464, 536, 538, 542, 552, 554, 599, 606, 609, 614, 739, 783, 788, 792, 836, 856, 871, 874, 892, 919, 951
Tennant, Susan Goodall, 963nr />
Tennessee, 351
Terrell, Texas, 353n
Teton Basin, Idaho and Wyoming, 342
Texas, 216, 354
Texas Quarterly, 502, 769; SP’s work in, 502n, 660; TH’s work in, 502n
Thames River (England), 496
Thanksgiving Day, 22n, 54, 81, 88, 141, 192–3, 198, 354, 359, 363, 366, 699, 918
Theater Guild, 303
Themerson, Franciszka, 33n, 40n
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, 336, 339–40
Thérèse de Lisieux, Saint, 288; Autobiography of St Thérèse of Lisieux, 288n
Thomas, Dylan, 17, 35, 38, 77, 92, 94, 135, 186, 211, 235, 241, 263–4, 279, 303; ‘After the Funeral (In Memory of Ann Jones)’, 279n; ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’, 279n; The Doctor and the Devil, 303; ‘Fern Hill’, 279n; ‘The Hunchback in the Park’, 279n; ‘Over Sir John’s Hill’, 279n; ‘Twenty-Four Years’, 279n
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 536n, 577n, 672n; ‘Not So’, 577n; Song at the Year’s Turning, 672n; Tares, 672n
Thomson, Alastair W., ‘Date Palms’, 638n
Thoor Ballylee Castle, 846, 905, 910, 914, 924, 951
Thoreau, Henry David, 280
Thorgerson, Karin Sonja, see Galmarino, Karin Sonja Thorgerson
Thornton, Elena, 302n
Thornton, Sir Peter Eustace, 434n
Thornton, Rosamond Myers, Lady (Luke Myers’ sister), 434
Thorverton, England, 783n
Thwaite, Anthony, 493n, 638n, 657n, 744n
Tiber River, 420
Tibet, 566
Tiger-Pieker (Hughes family cat), 856, 860–1, 929, 934, 956, 958
Time, 164, 190–1, 459–60, 462–3, 477, 487, 552, 775, 778, 796, 822, 860, 865, 914, 929, 931, 938, 950, 953
Time, 108, 754
Time and Tide, 274, 968n
Times, The (London), 108n, 283, 542, 581, 653, 677, 968n
Times Literary Supplement, 164, 186, 329n, 334–5, 385n, 423–5, 468, 509, 700, 968n; SP’s work in, 335n, 423–5, 660, 718; TH’s work in, 164n, 509n
Tintagel, England, 648
Tobin, June, 909n
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 302, 533; The Hobbit, 112, 302, 533; The Lord of the Rings, 302, 533
Tolstoy, Leo, 283n; Anna Karenina, 283n
Tong, Gail, 236n, 241
Topcat, 934
Torero! (motion picture), 218n
Toronto, Canada, 468
Totnes, England, 825n
Tourneur, Cyril, 121, 214–15; The Revenger’s Tragedy, 214n
Tower of London, 632
Townsman, The, see Wellesley Townsman, The Toynbee, Philip, ‘From Virgil to Kingsley Amis’, 764n