by Sylvia Plath
Conover, Robert Fremont, 357n
Conrad, Alfred H., 229, 231, 596n
Consagra, Sophie, 180n
Constance Smith Associates, 93n; see also Whitman, Constance Smith
Cook, Fred J., ‘Juggernaut: The Warfare State’, 696
Cook, P. Lesley (Pauline Lesley), 154
Cooke, Barrie, 829, 833, 887, 893, 924–5
Cooke, Harriet Pearl (Leviter), 829n, 887, 893; SP’s correspondence with, 924–5
Cooke, Liadin, 829n, 887, 893, 924
Cooke, Sonia, 829n, 887, 893, 924
Corcoran, Helen M. (‘Aunt Helen’), 47, 113
Coren, Alan, 398n
Corneille, Pierre, 121, 178
Cornucopia, Wisconsin, 338–9
Cornwall, England, 441, 499, 507, 510, 516, 525, 561, 566, 572, 593, 607, 609, 641, 699, 743, 767, 819–20, 861–2, 939
Corscombe, England, 813n
Corsica, France, 375, 543, 549, 740
Corso, Gregory, 618, 625, 666; ‘A Dreamed Realization’, 627n
Corwin, Virginia, 156, 163
Country Cousins, 228n
Cousteau, Jacques, The Silent World, 287n
Covent Garden (London), 473n, 619
Coventry, England, 546; Belgrade Theatre, 546n
Cox, Brian, 618, 803n; SP’s correspondence with, 391–2, 426, 562, 625, 627, 639, 666–7, 682–3, 700
Coyne, Mary, 825; SP’s correspondence with, 935
Coyne, Owen, 825
Coyne, Seamus, 825
Crabs, 239, 244–7, 254, 273, 281, 299, 328
Crane, Cheryl, 228n
Cranfill, Thomas Mabry, 502n
Crawford, Beverly, 674, 678, 681, 694, 776
Crawford, Maurice Gordon, 674n
Crawford, Paula, 674, 678, 681, 694, 776
Crawford, Rebecca, 674, 678, 681, 694, 776
Crawford, Ruth W., 156n
Crawford, Sylvia J. (West), 674, 678, 681, 694, 776
Creative writing of Ted Hughes: children’s literature, 72, 84, 133, 142, 189, 191, 198, 203, 275, 288, 313, 320–1, 653, 732, 789, 803; commissions of, 542, 554, 600, 621, 628, 689, 758; habits and methods, 99, 113, 420, 439, 533, 633, 635, 651, 653, 655, 663, 670, 689, 694, 760, 765, 781, 790; plays, 59, 84, 275, 282, 442, 475, 482, 493, 495, 507, 510, 515–16, 518, 653, 728, 807; poems, 17, 26, 30, 97, 122, 125, 142, 189, 197, 201, 207, 211, 213, 215, 218, 220–1, 233, 256, 260, 269, 287–8, 290, 307, 789, 843, 876; reviews, 482, 491, 493, 515, 671–2, 720, 728, 763, 765, 771; short stories, 30, 160, 208, 211, 269, 275, 287, 290, 329, 385, 397, 528, 533, 640, 668; SP’s secretarial work for, 17, 35, 51, 59, 69, 72, 77–8, 83, 86, 102, 110, 112, 132–3, 141, 165, 290, 323, 329–30, 363, 378, 400, 446, 458, 476, 478, 482, 522, 577, 751, 793; submissions and rejections of, 11–12, 17, 26, 35, 58, 62, 69, 71, 83, 111–12, 116, 122, 138, 160, 167, 211, 227, 248, 267, 276, 288, 368, 379, 392, 396–7, 400, 418, 528, 540, 545, 650, 656, 679–80
Creative writing of Sylvia Plath: and agents, 3, 35, 83, 93, 97, 102–3, 130, 133, 415, 548, 555, 560, 566, 650n; articles, 12–13, 133, 169, 206, 957, 962, 965–6, 968; and criticism, 146, 770, 773, 800, 886, 916–17, 928, 966; children’s literature, 203, 313, 317, 320–1, 326; commissions of, 212, 577, 619, 621, 628, 928, 936, 942, 957, 962–3, 968; habits and methods, 99, 113, 420, 459, 484–5, 487, 505, 551, 538, 566, 635, 596, 605, 608–9, 616, 623, 651, 653, 655, 657, 663, 668, 670, 694, 716, 727–8, 734, 739, 748, 750, 760, 765, 769, 776, 781, 784, 788, 790, 802, 808, 813, 826, 839, 842, 846–7, 856, 859, 861, 863, 865, 869, 872, 874, 877, 881, 895, 937, 960–1, 966; libel issues, 615, 683–5; and marriage, 73, 128, 244, 793, 828, 856, 871, 878, 882, 901; and motherhood, 551, 760, 785, 805, 856, 878, 882, 901; novels, 84, 100, 106–7, 128–9, 133, 142, 149, 164, 194, 210, 218, 220, 227, 233, 605, 614–17, 726, 735, 741, 776, 805, 814, 822, 826, 839, 842, 874, 881, 907, 913, 919, 922–5, 928–9, 937, 947, 953, 960; poems, 17, 53, 142, 168, 170, 201, 206, 212, 218, 220, 222–3, 226–7, 233, 242, 251, 253–4, 259–60, 262, 266, 287, 291, 304–6, 321, 328, 487, 503, 581, 666, 735, 759, 789, 805, 839, 846, 856, 861, 865, 869, 876–8, 882, 891n, 895n, 898n, 903–4, 928n, 929–30, 933, 936, 942, 966, 968; radio scripts, 622–3, 777–8, 784–5, 812, 928, 930, 933, 936, 942, 948–9, 953, 962; reviews, 94, 134, 671–2, 676, 734–5, 763, 765, 771, 856, 883, 891, 896, 906, 912, 918–19, 923, 936, 941, 948–9, 951, 953, 957; short stories, 51, 59, 84, 103, 130, 133, 142, 159, 164, 166, 168, 191, 194, 201, 206, 266, 287, 320–2, 328, 429, 548, 555, 560, 566, 653, 657, 663, 953; submissions and rejections of, 11–13, 15–16, 58, 62, 69, 71, 76, 83, 104, 111–12, 116, 122, 138, 167, 170, 187, 223, 227, 231, 248, 250, 267, 276, 293, 300, 317–19, 324, 326, 329–31, 343, 349, 355, 360, 371, 388, 391, 393n, 396–8, 414, 418, 426–7, 429, 458, 464, 493–4, 500, 527–31, 537, 560, 617, 626n, 645, 650, 653, 678–80, 705, 753n, 754, 775, 800, 809, 815, 853–4, 858, 902–3, 928, 955; and teaching, 187, 189, 191, 194, 198, 200, 218, 240, 251, 280, 287, 312; verse plays, 168–9, 775, 777, 780, 783, 785, 904
Creeley, Robert, ‘The Way’, 627n
Crest toothpaste, 601
Cricket, 443
Critical Quarterly, 391, 413, 423–6, 560n, 562, 617n, 660, 667n, 712; SP’s correspondence with, 330, 423–5; see also Cox, Brian; Dyson, A. E.; SP’s work in, 391, 423–4n, 426n, 617n; TH’s work in, 330n
Crockett, Deborah, 25n, 554
Crockett, Stephen, 25n, 554, 759
Crockett, Vera M., 25n, 113, 554
Crockett, Wilbury, 25–7, 113, 530, 759; SP’s correspondence with, 553–4
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph), 106
Crook, Arthur, 468n
Crosby, John, 272
Crowther, Gail, 777n
Cruickshank, Blair, 114n
Cruickshank, Cara, 114n
Cruickshank, Dorinda, 114n
Cruickshank, Dorinda Pell (‘Do’), 114, 139, 145, 469, 593, 599, 641, 745, 765, 769
Cruickshank, Pell, 114n, 757
Cruickshank, William H. Jr (‘Bill’), 114, 139, 145
Cruickshank family, 453, 607
Crystal, 633
Csokits, János, 502n, 533
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 210, 555; Selected Poems, 1923–1958, 555n
Cunard Steamship Company, 150
Curley, Daniel, 83n, 104n
Curtis, Anthony, ‘Current Literary Periodicals’, 329n
Custer, Montana, 340–1
Cuxhaven, Germany, 261
Cyprus, 6
Daiches, David, 136, 177–8
Daily Telegraph, The (London), 385n
Daimler Company, 750
Daisy, 588
Dallas, Texas, 351
Dana Hall School, 88n
Danes, 373
Daniels family, 839, 875n, 883
Danners, Dick, 767n
Dartmoor, England, 656, 690, 693, 702, 710, 721, 776, 802, 876, 883, 915
Dartmoor Prison, 876, 915n, 946
Dartmouth College, 35n
Dartmouth, New Hampshire, 35n
David, Jacques Louis, 212n
Davidow, Claire Sondheim, 312n
Davidow-Goodman, Ann, 472, 476–7, 484, 488, 494, 512; Let’s Draw, 327, 472, 487, 524, 553n; SP’s correspondence with, 312–14, 327–31, 487–8, 523–5, 552, 614–15, 691–2, 749–50; TH’s correspondence of, 552–3n
Davies, Winifred Mary Hope (SP’s midwife), 650, 658, 663, 699, 703, 706, 709, 713–14, 716, 721–3, 725, 731, 734, 736, 740, 742, 748–50, 752, 779, 782–3, 810, 813–14, 834–5, 838–9, 854–5, 864, 868, 870, 873–4, 882, 890, 905, 906n, 912, 914, 922, 924, 942, 950, 954–6
Davis, Alice Norma, SP’s correspondence with, 277–8, 315, 492; see also Smith College Vocational Office
Davis, Hope Hale, 39
Davis, Robert Gorham, 61, 87; SP’s correspondence with, 39, 89–90
Davison, Edward Angus, 32n, 656, 903
Davison, Jane Truslow, 32n, 457–8, 468, 477, 656, 903
Davison, Lesley Truslow, 32n
Davison, Peter, 32n, 93, 109, 113, 330, 464, 468, 477, 612
n, 695, 940n; ‘Not Forgotten’, 468n; ‘Self-Revelation in the New Poetry’, 655n; ‘The Site of Last Night’s Fire’, 330n; ‘To a Mad Friend’, 468n; SP’s correspondence with, 32, 226–8, 275–6, 457–8, 655–6, 903
Day, Philip, ‘A Pride of Poets’, 488n, 492, 539
Day, Worden, 357n
Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 623
De Chirico, Giorgio, 212, 222
De Gaulle, Charles, 256
De la Mare, Richard, 229n
De la Mare, Walter, 229
De Polnay, Peter, A Queen of Spain, 734n
De Rangel Creacion Fischgrund, 374n
Death, 5, 73, 94, 122, 128, 189, 258, 262, 368, 525, 777, 792, 794, 845, 860, 922, 969
Debussy, Claude, 299
Deer Island, Mass., 290; Prison, 684
Defoe, Daniel, 174n
Delta, 116n, SP’s work in, 117
Denmark, 373n
Derr, Mary Bailey, see Knox, Mary Bailey Derr
Derwood, Gene, 235, 241; The Poems of Gene Derwood, 234n
Deshaies, Arthur, 357n
Designer Craftsmen, The, 121n
Deutsch, Babette, 242, 272
Devizes, England, 547n
Devon, England, 507, 581n, 609, 630, 633–4, 637, 639–40, 645–6, 649–50, 653–6, 658–9, 661–2, 664, 666, 669–71, 673–5, 678–80, 682–3, 686, 690–3, 696, 700–1, 705–6, 711, 718–19, 721, 723, 725–6, 736–7, 740–3, 746–50, 753–4, 760–1, 766–7, 770, 775, 777n, 779n, 781, 783n, 784, 786, 788, 790, 795–6, 800–3, 807, 809, 811–12, 815–16, 818–19, 821, 823–6, 835, 839–41, 846–7, 851, 853–5, 857–8, 867–70, 872, 876–7, 880, 884n, 885–6, 889–90, 892, 894–5, 901–3, 906–16, 918, 921, 924–9, 935, 946, 948, 950–1, 954, 958, 960–1, 965–7
Devon Beekeepers’ Association, 779, 780n, 782, 865, 883
Devon Historic Environment Record, 673n
Dial, The, 92
Dibby’s, 940n, 942, 944, 947–8, 953, 957
Dickens, Charles, 209, 456n, 943
Dickins & Jones (firm), 940–1
Dickinson, Emily, 305, 574, 857n, 890, 893, 916
Dickinson, Patric, 186, 885, 891, 894, 896, 912, 923; ‘Poems of Substance’ (quotation from), 186
Dickinson, Peter, ‘Some poets’, 564n
Dick-Read, Grantly, 412, 422, 519, 716; Childbirth Without Fear, 412n, 519n
Dillon, Eilís, The Cat’s Opera, 771n
DiMaggio, Joe, 194
‘Disaster, A’, 6n
Dixon, J. Arthur, 762n
Disneyland, California, 337
Dodd, Marion E., 175n
Dole Food Company, 223
Donaldson, William, 127n
Donne, John, 146
Donner Pass, California, 346–7
Dordogne, France, 631
Doreen (fictitious character), 683
Dorsey, Rhoda Mary, 180n
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 164, 199, 201, 215, 312; Crime and Punishment, 164n, 202, 206, 279
Douarnenez, France, 629, 631n
Doubleday & Company, 46
Douglas, Keith, 758n, 777
Douglas, Marie Josephine Catellain, 777n
Dover, England, 628n
Drake, Stephen C., 833
Drake, Temple (fictitious character), 302
‘Dramatic Poem About Violence, A’, 542n
Du Sautoy, Peter Francis, 235, 240
Duble, Lu, 357n
Dublin, Ireland, 801, 821, 825, 833, 863, 893
‘Ducks and the Drakes, The’, 788n
Dufy, Raoul, 220
Dunn, Esther Cloudman, 200
Dunn, Mary A., 361
Duras, Marguerite, 690
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, The Visit, 498
Dutch, 336
Duvoisin, Roger, 328; A for the Ark, 676n
Dyrenforth, James, 767n
Dyson, A. E. (‘Tony’), 625, 667; SP’s correspondence with, 617–18
East Boston, Mass., 131n
Easter, 54, 78, 81, 141, 461, 593, 758, 764–8, 774
Eastham, Mass., 42n, 155, 162, 184
Easthampton, Mass., 160
Eaton, Olive Clifford, 729; SP’s correspondence with, 725
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 511
Edel, Leon, 278n
Eden, Sir Anthony, Earl of Avon, 6, 9, 12, 38, 111
Edmonds, Francis Charles, Jr., 452n
Edmonds, Francis Charles, III, 452n
Edmonds, Ruth, T., 452n
Edward A. Hatch Memorial Shell, 271n
Edwards, E. J., 624, 698, 827, 829, 833, 835, 905, 910
Eeyore (fictitious character), 107
Egypt, 6–7, 10, 38, 756
Eiffel Tower, 118
Einstein, Albert, 119
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (David), 8, 10, 529
Eisenstein, Sergei, 440
El Paso, Texas, 352–3
Elaine (fictitious character), 685
Eliot, George, 100
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 94, 96, 103, 121, 132, 134, 136, 143, 156n, 178, 215, 239–40, 252, 279, 282, 293, 306, 329, 331, 361, 367, 397, 429, 461, 464, 469–70, 480, 484, 486, 488, 491, 493, 494, 516, 521, 539, 554, 576, 627, 756, 802, 852, 916; ‘Ash Wednesday’, 329; Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot; 141n; ‘Journey of the Magi’, 279n; ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, 279; (quotation from), 141n; On Poetry and Poets, 156n; The Waste Land, 238, 279
Eliot, Valerie, 464, 469, 480, 486, 554, 576
Elizabeth II, Queen, 779
Ellison, Ralph, 235, 241
Elsa (lion), 672, 688
Elwin, Malcom, 919n, 925n; Lord Byron’s Wife, 918, 919n, 923, 925, 936
Empire State Building (New York), 157, 233, 236
Empson, William, 403n, 716n
Emslie, MacDonald, 436n
Encounter, 94, 164, 186, 188, 190, 660, 762; SP’s work in, 660n, 718; TH’s work in, 164n
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 681
England, 14n, 16, 18, 25–6, 35–6, 39, 41, 53, 59, 62, 64, 77–8, 89, 91, 93n, 97–8, 100, 104–5, 107, 110, 112, 115, 117, 131–2, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 147, 154, 158, 186, 191, 196, 214, 217, 221, 230, 233, 239–40, 243, 251, 261, 263–4, 267, 269, 273, 277, 281, 282n, 283, 286–7, 291, 293, 300, 304, 306, 308, 313–14, 318, 320–2, 325, 329, 331, 355, 361, 367–8, 372, 377, 398, 412, 419, 427, 436, 438, 451, 456–7, 461, 470, 479, 492, 495, 500, 510n, 523, 532, 543, 552n, 555n, 556, 560, 566, 571, 575, 578, 580, 588, 593–7, 600–3, 605, 611–17, 621, 626, 642, 645, 650, 654–6, 659, 661–2, 667, 669–70, 678, 680, 691, 693, 697, 701, 702n, 704n, 705, 711, 718–19, 721–6, 728, 734, 737, 741, 743, 746, 749–50, 752–3, 756, 760, 770, 775, 781, 785, 796, 801–2, 806, 812, 815–16, 818, 821, 825, 835–6, 841, 843, 846–8, 851–5, 858, 862, 868, 870, 876, 880, 886, 890, 892, 895, 898, 902–3, 909, 918, 927n, 948, 953–4, 957
English Channel, 36
English Folk Dance and Song Society, 441n
Enright, D. J. (Dennis Joseph), Some Men are Brothers, 555n
Enters, Angna, 88; ‘The Queen of Mime’, 88n
Entertainer, The (motion picture), 502
Episcopal Church, 416, 665, 694
Erskine, Robert, 760
Essex, California, 352
Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Fellowship, 73, 103, 113, 138, 243, 252, 268, 272n, 613, 680, 685, 687, 689, 691, 698, 701, 728, 735, 741, 745, 761, 778, 827, 834–7, 840, 842, 844, 850, 863, 866
Euripides, 362; The Bacchae, 362, 493
Europe, 24, 34n, 37, 57, 61, 100, 120, 126, 129, 136, 140, 144, 181, 199, 206, 208, 210, 220, 263, 273, 282, 291, 306, 321, 363, 373, 443, 448, 457, 471, 479, 510, 517, 524, 561, 568–9, 571, 591, 593, 609–11, 620, 623, 635, 666, 851, 964
Evening Times (Glasgow), 968n
Exeter, England, 634, 643, 648, 652, 656–8, 667, 675, 677, 686–7, 697, 704, 715, 719–20, 734, 737, 743, 745, 747, 756, 788, 849, 886, 889, 904, 965
Exeter Cathedral (Exeter, England), 648
Experiment in International Living, 37
Express & Star, 968n
F. W
. Woolworth Company, 703
Faber and Faber, 96, 103, 132, 134, 136, 138, 141, 144, 148, 161, 229, 235, 240, 267, 304, 385, 397–8, 400, 412, 420, 429, 431, 457, 459, 461, 464, 473, 475, 483–4, 485n, 486–8, 516, 518, 521, 539, 554, 584, 640, 658, 712, 802, 867, 912, 920
Fabre, Jean-Henri, 270, 438; The Life of the Scorpion, 270n; The Life of the Spider, 270n
‘Faculty Headlines’, 87n
Fainlight, Ruth, 641, 676, 769, 773, 775–6, 823, 845, 859, 863; Cages, 913n; Daylife and Nightlife: Stories, 686n; ‘Meima-Bucha’, 686n; ‘Mist’, 913; ‘The Sapphic Moon’, 762n; SP’s correspondence with, 646–7, 653–4, 658–9, 670–1, 686, 736–7, 761–2, 772, 821–4, 880–2, 913–15, 946–7; SP’s dedications to, 659n, 772, 815, 880, 915
‘Fall-Out Shelter Hazard’, 673n
Fallout shelters, 696–7, 750
Fane, Julian, 429n, 440
Fargo, North Dakota, 336
Farjeon, Eleanor, 434
Farrar, Alice Thomas (TH’s aunt), 78n, 191, 390, 421, 506, 559, 565, 568
Farrar, Barbara (TH’s cousin), 78n, 244, 390, 494, 564–5
Farrar, Edwin T. (TH’s cousin), 78n, 565
Farrar, Hilda Annie (TH’s aunt), 78, 148, 152, 191, 288, 378–9, 421, 434–5, 454, 478, 481, 559–60, 565, 568, 599, 708, 758, 764, 768, 778, 814, 830, 846, 848, 856, 860, 862–3, 865
Farrar, James M. (TH’s cousin), 78n
Farrar, John Chipman, 235, 241
Farrar, Victoria, see Watling, Victoria Farrar
Farrar, Walter T. (TH’s uncle), 78, 105, 150, 152, 191, 244, 300, 320, 375, 378, 390, 421, 476, 494, 504, 506, 559, 565, 568, 606, 708, 710, 764, 773, 775–6, 778, 814, 830
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 235, 241, 329, 379
Fassett, Agatha, 192n, 288, 292, 303–4, 308, 382; The Naked Face of Genius: Béla Bartók’s American Years, 304n; TH’s correspondence with, 382n
Fassett, Stephen, 192, 303, 308, 382n, 638n; TH’s correspondence with, 382n
Fassett Recording Studio, 192
Faulkner, William, 166, 302; Requiem for a Nun, 302; Sanctuary, 302; The Portable Faulkner, 166
Ferris, Paul, ‘Radio Notes’, 542n
Festival of Poetry, 883n, 885, 887, 891, 893, 896, 899n, 902, 912, 923, 930
Filene’s, 715, 937
Financial Times, The, 902n
Fini, Leonor, 546, 549
Finisterre, France, 629
Fire Island, New York, 739
Fisher, Alfred Young, 94, 200; SP’s correspondence with, 781
Fiske Poetry Prize, 196n
Fitts, Dudley, 304, 503
Flako, 19, 71, 98, 122