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INDEX
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Aaron, Daniel
Abels, Cyrilly
“Above the Oxbow”
Akutowicz, Edwin
Aldermaston marchers
Alexander, Paul
“All the Dead Dears”
Alliston, Susan
Allyson, June
Alvarez, Al
Hughes, T., and
on Hughes, O.
letters
meeting of
on Plath, S.
relationship with
reviews of
visit of
Amateur Dramatic Club
ambition
America
“America! America!”
“America the Beautiful”
American Book Review
American Poetry Review
Americanism
Ames, Lois
Anderson, Jane
“Angst and Animism in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath”
appendicitis
Apuleius
Arendt, Hannah
“Ariel”
Ariel (Plath, S.)
Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters (Wagner)
Arnold, Matthew
“Arraignment”
“The Arrival of the Bee Box”
The Art of Loving (Fromm)
Arvin, Newton
astrology
The Atlantic Monthly
atomic bomb
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, St.
Axelrod, Steven Gould
babysitting jobs
Badia, Janet
“Balloons”
Barbizon Hotel
Bartholomew Fair
“Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer”
Bayley, Sally
BBC
“The Beach”
Beales, Joan
“The Bear”
Becker, Gerry
Becker, Jillian
“The Bee God”
beekeeping
behavior
The Bell Jar (movie)
The Bell Jar (Plath, S.)
copyrights of
Davison on
dedication of
first draft of
influences on
interpretation of
McCullough on
publication of
reviews of
Belmont Hotel
Benny, Jack
Beuscher, Ruth
biking
biographers
Hughes, T., and
birth
Birthday Letters (Hughes, T.)
censorship of
personas in
response to
“A Birthday Present”
Bitter Fame (Stevenson)
“Bitter Strawberries”
“Black Coat”
Black Lamb and Gray Falcon (West)
“Blackberrying”
The Blackboard Jungle
Blackwell, Betsy Talbot
Blackwell, Constance
Blake, William
“The Blue Flannel Suit”
Boddy, Michael
The Bookseller
Boston
Boston Herald
Boston University
Bourjaily, Vance
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bowles, Sally
Bradford
Brans, Jo
Brown, Marcia
letters
visit
Buck, David
Buckley, Maureen
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Bulganin, Nicolai
bullfighting
Bumblebees and Their Ways (Plath, O.)
Bundy, Leo
Buntzen, Lynda K.
“Burning the Letters”
Bus Stop
Butscher, Edward
Hughes, O., meeting with
Cambridge
Christmas at
exams
letters at
mentors at
return to
schedule at
The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (Van Dyne)
Cambridge University
Campbell, Wendy
camping
Campus Cat
Cape Cod
career, marriage and
Carter, Mark Bonham
Cary, Joyce
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
censorship
of Birthday Letters
copyright and
of journals, Hughes, T.
sexuality and
Chaikin, Celia
“Character Notebook”
Chase, Mary Ellen
chilblains
“Child”
childbirth. See pregnancy
childhood
camp
end of
first kiss
hurricane of September 21st, 1938
interests
jobs
ocean and
Plath, O., death of
children. See also Hughes, Frieda Rebecca; Hughes, Nicolas
colds of
confession about
longing for
Plath, A., as caretaker of
“Child’s Park”
Christian Science
The Christian Science Monitor
Ciardi, John
“Circus in Three Rings”
The City of God (St. Augustine)
Cohen, Eddie
advice of
letters
Plath’s, S., rejection of
on recovery
relationship with
Cohen, Marvin
Cold War
Collected Plays (Yeats)
The Collected Poems (Plath, S.)
errors in
Hughes, T., division of
“Juvenilia”
Colman, Ronald
The Colossus (Plath, S.)
Compton, David
Connors, Kathleen
Continuum Books
“Contusion”
cooking
Coover, Robert
copyright, censorship and
Court, Clare
Court Green
Coward, Noël
Craig, Anna C.
Craig, Daniel
creativity
of Hughes, T.
marriage and
teaching and
Crockett, Wilbury
on suicide of Plath, S.
visit of
Crow Steered/Bergs Appeared (Myers)
Curie, Marie
“Cut”
“Daddy”
rejection of
review of
Dalrymple, Florence
Darkness Visible (Styron)
Davidow, Ann
dropping out of
letters
visit
Davies, Winifred
Davis, Robert Gorham
Davison, Peter
relationship with
visit
death. See also suicide
childbirth and
consciousness and
of Hughes, T.
philosophy and
of Plath, O.
writing and
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath (Hayman)
Denison, Judy
“Departure of the Ghost (After Paul Klee)”
depression
despair
dynamics of
emergence from
medication
“The Descent of Ariel: The Death of Sylvia Plath”
“The Detective”
The Development of Personality (Jung)
“Dialogue of the Damned”
“Dialogue Over a Ouija Board”
Dickinson, Emily
discipline
“The Disquieting Muses”
divorce
“Doom of Exiles”
“Doomsday”
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Double (Dostoevsky)
“Doubletake”
“Dream Life”
“Dream Woman Muse”
“Dreamers”
dreams
Drew, Elizabeth
Dyson, A. E.
“Edge”
“Eichman in Jerusalem”
“18 Rugby Street”
“Electra on Azalea Path”
electroconvulsive treatments
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabethan Club
Ellison, Ralph
Elwin, Malcolm
“An End”
England. See also Fulbright
“Epitaph for Fire and Flower”
Epstein, Elinor
Epstein, Enid
Evangeline
Ewell, Tom
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual (Bayley & Connors)
The Fading Smile (Davison)
Fainlight, Ruth
“Falcon Yard”
fan letters
Farber, Leslie
fascism
“Fate Playing”
Faulkner, William
“The Fearful”
Feinstein, Elaine
feminism
fiction
“The Fifty-Ninth Bear”
First Loves and Other Adventures (Schulman)
Fisher, Alfred
Fisher, John
Follett, CB (“Lyn”)
“For a Fatherless Son”
“The Forsaken Merman”
Frances McCullough Papers
“Frieda Hughes Attacks BBC for Film on Plath”
Fromm, Erich
Fulbright
application for
marriage and
renewal of
“Fulbright Scholars”
Fuller, Roy
Fulton, George
Gaitskill, Hugh
Gardner, Ava
Gellhorn, Martha
Gendron, Valerie
genealogy
Generation of Vipers (Wylie, P.)
Gibian, George
Giving Up (Becker)
God
Godden, Rumer
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Golden Notebook (Lessing)
Gone with the Wind
Goodall, Pat
Goodman, Ann
Goodman, Leo
“The Goring”
“Grand Canyon”
grave marker
Graves, Robert
Greenwood, Esther
Guggenheim Fellowship
Gyllenhaal, Maggie
Hafter, Daryl
Hahn, Emily
Half-Remembered (Davison)
Hall, Caroline King Barnard
Hall, Donald
Harcourt
“Hardcastle Crags”
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hardy, Thomas
Harper’s
Harris, Phil
Harvard
“Haunted”
Haupt, Gary
Haven House
The Hawk in the Rain (Hughes, T.)
Hayman, Ronald
Hecht, Anthony
Heinemann
Henley, William Ernest
Her Husband (Middlebrook)
Herself Surprised (Cary)
“Hill of Leopards”
Hinchcliffe, Elizabeth
history
histrionics
Hitler, Adolf
Holm, Alex
Holocaust
homesickness
honeymoon
Horder, John
The Horse’s Mouth (Cary)
hospitalization
Houghton Mifflin
The House of Aries (Hughes, T.)
Howls and Whispers (Hughes, T.)
The Hudson Review
Hughes, Carol
Hughes, Edith
Hughes, Frieda Rebecca
Hughes, Nicholas
Hughes, Olwyn
Alexander and
Butscher meeting with
Cohen, M., on
as custodian of Plath’s, S., work
hatred of Plath, S.
Hughes, T., letters to
Kroll and
letters
Malcolm and
meeting of
on Plath, S.
Stevenson, Anne, and
visit
on Wevill, A., suicide
Hughes, Ted
abuse of
Alvarez and
on America
arguments with
Ariel rearrangement
Auden and
BBC readings of
biographers and
censorship of journals
The Collected Poems division of
competition with Plath, S.
creativity of
day job of
death of
divorce
education of
faith in
fame of
farewell love
letter to
fatherhood of
feminist reaction to
fishing of
Guggenheim Fellowship of
guilt of
Harper’s prize win of
Harvard reading of
hatred of
Hayman’s charges against
Horder on
hygiene of
infidelity of
jealousy of
letters
Letters Home and
letters to Hughes, O.
letters to parents
love letters of
love poems of
lovemaking with
on marriage
marriage to
marriage to Orchard
meeting of
Merwin, D., on
Morgan and
parents
physical appearance of
Plath, W., meeting of
on Plath, S.
as Poet Laureate
poetry critique of
politics and
popular prose of Plath, S., and
pregnancy involvement of
privacy and
Prouty and
Prouty on
“Pursuit”
reaction to suicide of Wevill, A.
reconciliation, plans for
relationship with
sadism of
Sassoon, R., on marriage to
as school teacher
stories of
success of
on suicide
at UMASS
violence and
wardrobe of
Hughes, William
The Hughes Papers
Hume, David
Humphrey, Dorothy L.
Hunter, Nancy
hurricane
Huws, Daniel
hygiene
identity
fan letters and
loss of
at Smith College
“In the Mountains”
The Independent
Indiana University
“Initiation”
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)
“The Inscription”
“Invictus”
The Invisible Man
Irwin
Isis
“Isis”
Jackson, Marni
Jackson, Shirley
“The Jailor”
James, Henry
Jane Anderson v. AVCO Embassy Pictures
Jezebel
jobs
babysitting
at Belmont Hotel
childhood
at Massachusetts General Hospital
routine of
waiting tables
Joe’s Pizza
John Birch Society
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Plath, S.)
“Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams” (Plath, S.)
Jong, Erica
journalism
journals, Hughes, T., censorship of
Joyce, James
Judas
Jung, Carl
on marriage
on motherhood
Plath, A., and
“Juvenilia”
Kaufman, Alan J.
Kazin, Alfred
Kendall, Tim
Kennedy, John F.
Kent, Clark (Superman)
Kerouac, Jack
Kesey, Ken
Khrushchev, Nikita
“Kindness”
King’s Chapel
kissing
Klein, Elinor
Klotz, Myron
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