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Knight, Kathleen
knowledge
Kopp, Jane Baltzell
Korean War
Kornfield, Barbara Russell
Kroll, Judith
Krook, Dorothea
Kukil, Karen V.
Kunitz, Stanley
Ladies Home Journal
“Lady Lazarus”
Lameyer, Gordon
letters
relationship with
reunion with
Lane, Helen
Lane, Lois (Superman)
Larschan, Richard
“Last Letter”
Lawner, Lynne
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence House
Lawson, Helen
Leavis, F. R.
“Lesbos”
Lessing, Doris
Let’s Make Love
letters
Akutowicz
Alvarez
Anderson
Brown
at Cambridge
Christmas cards
Cohen, E.
copyright of
Davidow
Drew
fan
farewell love letter to Hughes, T.
Hughes, O.
Hughes, T.
Hughes, T., love
Hughes, T., to Hughes, O.
Klein
Lameyer
McCurdy
Neupert
Norton, D.
Plath, A.
Plath, W.
Prouty
Rogers
Sassoon, R.
Smith College
suicide in
summer camp
Wevill, A.
Wober
Letters Home (Plath, S.)
Hughes and
introduction to
publication of
reviews of
Letters of Ted Hughes (Reid)
Levenson, Christopher
Lever, Janet
Levine, Miriam
Levy, Laurie
library
Lilly Library
Lind, Louise
The Listener
literary criticism
Little, Marybeth
“The Lodger”
The London Magazine
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
looks. See physical appearance
Lord Byron’s Wife (Elwin)
Los Angeles Book Review
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Lowell, Robert
Loy, Myrna
Lucas, Victoria
Lucie-Smith, Edward
Lupercal (Hughes, T.)
Maclean’s Magazine
“Mad Girl’s Love Song”
Mademoiselle
assessment of Plath, S.
deadlines at
guest editorship at
prizes
routine at
Madrid
“The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky’s Novels”
Malcolm, Janet
“The Man He Killed”
“The Man Who Died”
Mann, Thomas
marriage
career and
creativity and
divorce
Fulbright and
honeymoon
Hughes, T., on
to Hughes, T.
Jung on
Melville and
of Monroe
to Orchard, Hughes
reconciliation plans
Sassoon, R., on Hughes
secret wedding
separation
writing and
Martin, Marilyn
masochism
Massachusetts General Hospital
materialism
Maxwell, William
McCarthyism
McCullough, Frances
Hughes, O., and
McCurdy, Phil
McLean hospital
medication
“Medusa”
Melville, Herman
men
menstrual cycle
mental health
Merwin, Dido
Merwin, W. S.
Middlebrook, Diane
Milbanke, Anna Isabella
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Karl
miscarriage
money
Monroe, Marilyn
autobiographical performances of
behavior of
marriage of
Plath’s, S., dream of
psychiatric treatment of
as role model to Plath, S.
Monster (Morgan)
mood swings
Moore, Marianne
Moorehead, Alan
Morgan, Robin
“Morning Song”
“Mothers”
Motion, Andrew
Ms.
The Munich Mannequins”
Murphy, Richard
“Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor”
“My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
Myers, Lucas
“Mystic”
The Nation
National Health Service (England)
The National Observer
National Review
nature
Neibuhr, Reinhold
Neupert, Hans-Joachim
New Statesman
New York City
New York Jew (Kazin)
The New Yorker
first-reading contract of
poems accepted into
rejections from
“Night-Ride with Ariel”
“9 Willow Street”
Nixon, Richard
No Man’s Land
“Nocturne”
Northampton
Norton, Dick
breakup with
career of
emotional problems of
journal entry on
letters
relationship with
tuberculosis of
writing of
Norton, Perry
“Notes Toward a Biography”
Now, Voyager (Prouty)
The Observer
ocean, childhood and
“Ocean 1212-W”
O’Connor, Frank
Odets, Clifford
O’Hara, Scarlett
On Native Grounds (Kazin)
On the Beach (Shute)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey)
O’Neill, Eugene
O’Neill-Roe, Susan
Orchard, Carol. See Hughes, Carol
Orr, Peter
Ouelette, Ellen
“Ouija”
Ouija board
Owen, Peter
“The Owl”
pacifism
The Painted Caravan: A Penetration into the Secrets of Tarot Cards (Rakoczi)
panic
“Paralytic”
Paris
Paris Review
Partisan Review
“Paula Brown’s Snowsuit”
Pawlikowski, Pawel
Penguin USA
perfectionism
Perloff, Marjorie
personality
Peyre, Henri
Philippian
physical appearance
“A Picture of Otto”
“A Pink Wool Knitted Dress”
Plath, Aurelia (mother)
as caretaker of children
as confidant
hatred of
Hughes, F., attack of
Jung and
letter to Sigmund
letters
morals of
self-sacrifice of
suicide and
ulcers of
visit of
Plath, Otto (father)
death of
“Electra on Azalea Path”
gravestone of
Nazism and
Ouija board communication with
politics of<
br />
as professor
Plath, Warren (brother)
Hughes, T., meeting of
letters
visit
wife of
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allen
“Poem”
poetry. See also writing
beginning of
confessional
early interest in
Hughes critique of
hurricane of September 21st, 1938 and
Plath, S., on
pleasure of
villanelle
Poetry
Point Shirley
“Point Shirley”
politics
in England
of Plath, O.
Sigmund on Hughes, T., and
Pope, Alexander
“Poppies in July”
Porter, Cole
Porter, Peter
The Portrait of a Lady (James)
positive thinking
posture
pregnancy
due date
effect of
Hughes, T., involvement with
labor/delivery
miscarriage
natural childbirth
second
third
The Prince and the Showgirl
prizes
Hughes, T., Harper’s prize
Mademoiselle
Seventeen
prose
Prouty, Olive Higgins
gifts from
Hughes, T., and
letters
as mentor
nervous breakdown of
scholarship from
visit to
The Public Burning (Coover)
Punic Wars
“Pursuit”
Quinn, Kay
“The Rabbit Catcher”
radio, writing for
Rainbow Press
Rakoczi, Basil Ivan
Random House
rape
readings
rebirth
reconciliation, plans for
“Reconsidering Sylvia Plath”
recorded voice
recovery
“Redcoats”
Redgrove, Peter
Reid, Christopher
rejections
from The Atlantic Monthly
of “Daddy”
of “Lady Lazarus”
from The New Yorker
from Yale Younger Poets
relationships. See also marriage
with Alvarez
with Cohen, E.
with Davison
with Hughes, T.
with Irwin
with Lameyer
with Norton, D.
romance
with Sassoon, R.
with Wober
religion, materialism and
Rich, Adrienne
River Cam
RMS Queen Elizabeth
Roche, Clarissa
memoirs
visit
Roche, Paul
Roethke, Theodore
Rogers, Sally
Rose, Jacqueline
Rosenstein, Harriet
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath (Alexander)
Rowe, Susan O’Neill
Salinger, J. D.
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
Sassoon, Richard
on Hughes, T., marriage
letters
loss of
rape and
relationship with
sexuality of
Swiss girlfriend of
Sassoon, Siegfried
The Saturday Evening Post
Saturday’s Child (Morgan)
The Savage God: A Story of Suicide (Alvarez)
Saxton grant
scars
schedule
at Cambridge
writing
scholarship
schooling
Schulman, Grace
Schwartz, Merrill
Schwartz, Pepper
science
“The Second Destruction of Sylvia Plath”
self-doubt
self-wounds
The Seven Year Itch
Seventeen
The Sewanee Review
Sexton, Anne
sexuality
abuse
censorship and
dating
first kiss
guilt and
Martin on
rape
of Sassoon, R.
The Shadow
The Shadow
“The Shadow” (Plath)
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Irwin
“Sheep in Fog”
“The Shot”
Shute, Nevil
sickness
Sigmund, Elizabeth Compton
on Hughes, T., and politics
Plath, A., letter to
testimony of
Silberman, Ravelle
The Silent Woman (Malcolm)
Sillitoe, Alan
Simon, Jody
Skouras, Plato
sleep
sleeping pills
Smith, Anne Mohegan
Smith Alumnae Quarterly
Smith College
alumni
course load at
Haven House room at
hiatus from
identity at
letters at
mood swings at
physical exams at
return to
scholarship to
teaching position at
worry about studies at
Smith Review
smoking
“Snow Blitz”
Somerset Maugham award
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
Sontag, Susan
sororities
Southwest Review
Spender, Stephen
Springfield Daily News
St. Botolph’s Review
Stafford, Jean
Starbuck, George
Steinberg, Peter K.
Steiner, Nancy Hunter
Stella Dallas (Prouty)
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Anne
Hughes, O., and
on Wevill
Stewart, Hamish
“Stings”
Strange Interlude (O’Neill)
“Stubbing Wharfe”
Studies in Classic American Literature (Lawrence)
style
Styron, William
Suez crisis
suicide
Akutowicz on
attempt, first
attraction of
Crockett on
discovery of
egoism and
father and
by gas
Hughes, T., on
isolation and
in letters
Plath, A., and
popularization of
preparation for
Sexton on
Thomas and
time of
of Wevill
of Woolf
suitors
summer camp
“And Summer Will Not Come Again”
sunbathing
“Sunday at the Mintons”
Superman
“Sweetie Pie and the Gutterman”
Swenson, May
Sylvia
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness (Butscher)
Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work (Owen)
“The Table”
Tate, Allen
teaching
creativity and
at Smith College
Socratic method
Teasdale, Sara
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (Feinstein)
temperament
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
“That Widow Mangada”
therapy. See recovery
The Thinking Body (Todd)
Thomas, D
ylan
Thomas, Trevor
“Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices”
Time
Todd, Mabel Elsworth
“Tongues of Stone”
Tonio Kröger (Mann)
“Totem”
Trafalgar Square
Tri-Quarterly
Truslow, Jane
“Tulips”
“Two of a Kind”
UMASS. See University of Massachusetts
University of Chicago
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts (UMASS)
Uroff, Margaret
Van Dyne, Susan R.
“Verbal Calisthenics”
“Veronica Lake”
Viking Penguin
villanelle
violence, Hughes, T., and
“Visions of Sylvia Plath”
“Visit”
Wagner, Erica
Wagner-Martin, Linda
Wain, John
war. See also specific types
wedding. See marriage
Weeks, Edward
Weissbort, Daniel
Wellesley High School
Wells, H. G.
Welty, Eudora
Wesker, Arnold
West, Rebecca
Wevill, Assia
abortion of
in biographies of Plath, S.
in “Dreamers”
effect of Plath, S., fame on
Hughes, O., on
letters
Plath’s, S., innate understanding of
reputation as femme fatal
Stevenson, A., on
suicide of
Wevill, D., on
Wevill, David
White, E. B.
The White Goddess (Graves)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkes, Ashley
“William Wilson”
Williams, William Carlos
Wilson, Don
Winston, Susan Plath
“A Winter’s Tale”
“The Wishing Box”
Wober, Mallory
The Woman and the Work (Butscher)
Women at Yale: Liberating a College Campus (Lever & Schwartz, P.)
Woodrow Wilson fellowship application
Woolf, Virginia
Wooten, William
Wordsworth, William
World War I
World War II
writer’s block
hatred of Plath, A., and
of Hughes, T.
writing. See also poetry
death and
love of
marriage and
schedule
Wunderlich, Ray
Wuthering Heights
Wylie, Elinor
Wylie, Philip
Yaddo
Yale
Yale Younger Poets
Yeats, W. B.
“You Hated Spain”
Young, Nanci A.
“Your Paris”
Otto, Aurelia, and Sylvia Plath, July 1933.
Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Sylvia and Warren Plath on a sailboat in Winthrop, Massachusetts, August 1940, three months before Otto Plath’s death.
Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
26 Elmwood Road, the home of Aurelia, Warren, and Sylvia Plath, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Courtesy Peter K. Steinberg and Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Sylvia Plath sunbathing in the backyard, 26 Elmwood Road, June 1946
Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Sylvia Plath, c. November 1954.
Courtesy Judith Denison. Glenda Hydler: Restoration.