American Isis (47 page)

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

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, Dylan

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”