by Sylvia Plath
Fletcher, Constance Kyrle, 485
Fletcher, Ian, 816n
Fletcher, Ifan Kyrle, 485n, 672, 676, 688
Flinders, Polly, 598
Florence, Italy, 274, 940
Florida, 511n
Fontanne, Lynn, 498n
Food: American meals, 19, 84, 116, 169, 289, 378, 438–9, 458, 528, 536, 568, 574, 649, 653, 658, 699, 708, 714, 721, 725, 728, 746, 751, 772, 875; British meals, 147, 380, 389, 399, 405, 433, 505, 598, 663, 758; French meals, 536; Italian meals, 49, 193, 196, 201, 464, 467, 474, 766n
Football, American, 514
Ford, Ruth, 302
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), Howard’s End, 166
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 185
Fortnum & Mason (firm), 501, 533, 703
Fortune Press, The, 300
Foster, Aidan, 922
Foster, Bride, 922
Foster, Frederick Gilbert, 922; SP’s correspondence with, 934, 955
Foster, Gerald, 922, 929
Foster, Marian, 922, 929n; SP’s correspondence with, 934, 955
Foster, Rona, 922n
Fourth of July, 258
Fowlie, Wallace, 367
Fox, Harold Munro, 259n; The Personality of Animals, 259
Foyle’s, see W. & G. Foyle Ltd. Framingham, Mass., 229
France, 9, 299, 306, 403–4, 410, 437, 442–3, 453, 456, 463, 473, 479, 524, 556, 560, 568, 571, 575, 591, 608–9, 614, 621, 623–4, 652, 655, 785; see also individual towns and cities
Francis, Richard, 609n
Franco, Francisco, 822
Françoise, The Things I Like, 676n
Frankfort, Catherine, 536n, 630, 643, 675, 887, 892, 898, 927, 940–3, 948, 957
Frankfort, Johannes, 536n, 940–1, 943
Frankfort, Justin, 630n, 940–1, 948, 957
Frankfort, Nicholas, 928n, 940–1, 957
Frankfort, Thomas, 630n, 940–1, 948, 957
Frankfurt, Germany, 696
Fraser, G. S. (George Sutherland), 14, 94, 98, 102, 137n, 700n; ‘American Poetry’, 700n; Poetry Now: An Anthology, 14n, 102; ‘Parnassian Grades’, 137n
Fraser, Kathleen, ‘Winter Beach’, 221n
Frayn, Michael, 84; SP’s correspondence with, 81–82
Freeman, David, 113, 670
Freeman, Marion Saunders, 3, 28, 113, 140–1, 207, 218, 388, 462, 496, 508, 556, 561, 572, 593, 671, 707, 729, 733; SP’s correspondence with, 31, 594–5, 669–70, 723–4, 750–1
Freeman, Ruth Prescott, see Geissler, Ruth Prescott
Freeman family, 3n, 102n
French, Philip, 963n
French language: learning, 305, 437, 503, 514, 540, 732; writing, 503
Freud, Sigmund, 410
Fried, Michael, 137n, 231n, 429
Friedman, Elinor, see Klein, Elinor Friedman
Friedman, Muriel, 155
Fromm, Erich, 880, 967–8; The Art of Loving, 880n, 967–8n
Frost, Robert, 28, 142
Frye, Cary Plumer, 411, 413, 448, 497, 693
Fulbright Scholar Awards, 7, 10, 12, 23, 25, 30, 33, 35, 39, 42, 46, 94, 120, 126, 129–30, 134, 151, 274–5, 277, 304, 325, 371, 408, 419, 472, 726, 939
Fuller, Kay, 690n
Fuller, Roy, 432, (quotation from), 617n
G. P. Putnam, 317n
Gaberbocchus Press, 33n, 40n
Gág, Wanda, The ABC Bunny, 912n; The Funny Thing, 771n, 912n
Gaines, William L., 7, 126
Gaitskell, Hugh, 6, 531
Gallipoli, Turkey, 503
Galmarino, Alberto R., 699n
Galmarino, Karin Sonja Thorgerson, 699
Galway, Ireland, 801n, 821, 825, 829, 833, 873, 881, 883, 924n, 951
Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School, see Wellesley High School
Gambier, Ohio, 371
Gambling, 5, 13, 66, 74, 276, 291, 300, 308, 390
García Lorca, Federico, Blood Wedding, 236, 242
Garden House Hotel, 84
Gardner, Helen, 537n
Gardner, W. H. (William Henry), 917n
Gauguin, Paul, 212, 215, 220, 222
Gehenna Press, 156n, 292–3n
Geisel, Ruth, 699
Geissler, Arthur J., 31n, 113, 268n
Geissler, Ruth Prescott (‘Ruthie’, ‘Ruthy’), 31, 113, 268, 496, 498, 593, 595, 607, 670, 723–4, 751
Geissler family, 31, 593, 670, 723–4, 751
Gemini, 63, 93, 95, 126–8; SP’s work in, 63n, 83, 93, 95, 117, 128, 134; TH’s work in, 83n
George, David Lloyd, 531
George, Saint, 209
German language: learning, 99, 252, 260, 262, 305, 365, 366, 395, 514, 517, 540, 732, 860, 883; speaking, 260, 366, 395, 517, 860; writing, 365
Germans, 253, 261, 263, 336, 373, 696, 883, 887, 892, 898, 957, 960, 964, 966
Germany, 59, 81, 141, 190, 253, 261n, 306, 365, 376, 534, 696, 849, 851, 856, 859, 918; see also individual towns and cities
Gerson, Mark, 484
Ghose, Zulfikar (‘Zulfi’), 464, 467
Giant Orange, 347–8
Giesey, Louise, see White, Louise Giesey Gilbert, 633
Gill, Brendan, 779n; The Day the Money Stopped, 779
Gilmore, George, 60
Giovanni, di Paolo, Paradise, 285–6
Giraudoux, Jean, Ondine, 628
Glascock Poetry Prize, see Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize
Glasgow Herald, 968n
Gleek, Mrs (fictitious character), 685
Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, 230n
Glory of Goya, The (motion picture), 218n
Godwin, William, 589
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 215, 365, 611n; Faust, 611n
Golden Year, The, 423–5
Golding, William, Pincher Martin: The Two
Deaths of Christopher Martin, 301
Goldsmiths’ Hall (London), 536, 638n, 676
Good Housekeeping, 130, 434
Goodall, Edwin Baker, Jr., 466n
Goodall, John Latimer, 963n
Goodall, Patricia Ehle, 963n
Goodall, Susan, see Tennant, Susan Goodall Goodfellow, Robin, see Puck (legendary character)
Goodman, Leo A., 472, 476–7, 487, 494, 496, 499, 512, 523–4; SP’s correspondence with, 552, 614–15, 691–2, 749–50
Gordon, Dr (fictitious character), 684
Gordon Fraser Gallery, 690n, 702n, 704n, 787n
Gordon, Harry, 499n
Gordon, Norah, 499n
Goya, Francisco, 218, 582
Graham, Edward K. (Kidder), 196, 219
Graham, Elizabeth Ann McFadyen, 196
Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows, 107, 408n, 653n
Grand Canyon, Arizona, 125, 150, 306, 337, 348, 351–2
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 342
Grant, Sheila, 909n, 962n
Granta, 63, 81n, 83n, 127n, 136, 153, 180; SP’s work in, 63n, 84n, 117, 126, 128, 134; TH’s work in, 84n, 126, 128, 134
Grantchester, England, 4, 7, 35, 64–5, 82, 106, 119, 125, 146
Graves, Robert, 190n, 294, 560; ‘Outlaws’ (quotation from), 294; The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children, 560n; The White Goddess, 762n
Great Britain, 6, 9, 442; Central Criminal Court, 537, 539; Criminal Investigation Department (CID), 780, 783; National Health Service, 413, 457, 479, 483, 495, 501, 539, 597, 698, 703, 745, 913, 964–5; Royal Air Force, 36
Great Depression, 832
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, 864n, 881, 883, 890, 904, 914, 930, 944
Great Salt Lake, Utah, 343n, 344, 347
Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, 344, 347
Grecourt Review, 424–5; SP’s work in, 424–5n, 660
Greece, 306, 441, 443
Greek, 544, 606
Greek Line, 282n
Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont, 364
Greenslade & Co., 549n
Greenstein, Milton, 701
Greenwich Village (New York), 236–7, 242
Greenwood, Esther (fictitious charact
er), 123n, 239n, 683, 685
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 260, 262; Märchen der Brüder Grimm, 260n
Groenewegen-Frankfort, H. A. (Henriette Antonia), 943
Grosset & Dunlap, 472
Grundy, Jane, 589
Guardian, The (Manchester Guardian until August 1959) 6n, 7, 9n, 111n, 385n, 433n, 568, 673n, 690n, 876n, 923n, 948n, 968n
Guardian Weekly, The, 568n
Guest, Barbara, 682, ‘The Brown Studio’, 627n, 682
Guggenheim Foundation, see John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guiliani, 304
Guinness (firm), 115, 893
Guinness Book of Poetry, 242n, 425
Guinness Poetry Award, 276n, 281–3, 291, 535–6, 638, 647, 654, 657, 663, 672, 676, 697, 704, 801n, 902n
Gulbrandsen, Melvin H., 97, 526, 658, 745
Gulf Oil Corporation, 366
Gulliver, Lemuel (fictitious character), 211
Gunn, Thom, 190n, 307, 429, 516, 569, 576, 579, 658, 666, 712, 785–6; Five American Poets, 712n; My Sad Captains and Other Poems, 785n; Selected Poems, 658n, 712
Gypsies, 236, 242, 249, 251
H. J. Heinz Company, 488
Hackney (London), 588
Hadley, Mass., 184
Hagan, Roger, ‘When the Holocaust Comes’, 696
Hague, The, Netherlands, 468
Halifax, England, 372n
Hall, Adelaide, 767n
Hall, Donald, 305n, 428n, 457n, 949n; Contemporary American Poetry, 949n, 953, 957; New Poets of England and America, 305; New Poets of England and America: Second Selection, 720; ‘True and False Feeling’, 457n
Hall, Peter, 600
Halley’s comet, 246
Hallmark Cards, 387, 763n
Ham, Jacob, 255n
Hamburger, Michael, ‘Anachronisms’, 577n
Hamilton, Francis Monteith, 666, 674
Hamilton, Mark, 650n
Hamilton, Sybil Merton, 666, 674, 731
Hamleys, 899
Hammer, Trygve, Hawk, 185n
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 705n
Hampshire County Public Health Association, 206n
Hampstead (London), 435n, 507, 510, 582, 895, 942
Hampstead Heath (London), 501, 503n, 507, 573
Hankin, Agnes M., 547
Hannaway, Sister (SP’s midwife), 408, 416, 422, 429, 440, 445, 449
Hansen, Leif, 373n
Hanson, Pauline (‘Polly’), 359, 361, 363, 367; The Forever Young, 367n
Harari, Michael, 555n
Harcourt Brace & Company, 32n, 265, 285n, 317n, 343
Hardcastle Crags (Yorkshire, England), 506
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 266, 303
Harlem (New York), 153, 236, 241–2
Harold Ober Associates, 93n
Harper & Row, 17, 22, 72, 77, 79, 93–4, 96–7, 101, 103, 108, 110, 132, 136, 138, 141, 144, 148, 160, 163, 285n, 385, 412–13, 422, 599, 650, 680, 928n
Harper’s Bazaar, 156, 429, 440, 619, 640, 668, 671, 867; TH’s work in, 619n
Harper’s Magazine, 12n, 133, 142, 163, 169, 185, 221, 243, 330n, 363–4, 393, 398, 400, 406, 418, 420, 468, 480, 509, 513, 753, 769; SP’s correspondence with, see Silvers, Robert B.; SP’s work in, 76, 104, 117, 325, 372, 393n, 424–5, 513n, 660, 718, 753n, 769; TH’s work in, 142n, 164, 221n, 363n, 364, 480, 538, 769
Harris, Chetham & Co., 825n, 857, 825n, 857
Harrods (department store), 498, 703, 940
Hart, Howard, ‘When she is back’, 221n
Hartland, England, 649n
Hartley, Anthony, 160n
Hartley, George, 704n, 797n
Harvard University, 3n, 22n, 23, 32, 37, 42n, 43, 46n, 47–8, 50n, 52–3, 62, 80n, 87, 101n, 123, 135, 192, 229, 238, 244, 277, 301, 303, 320, 323, 362, 510, 542, 685, 833, 950–1; Adams House, 240; German Club, 37; Faculty Club, 320; Lamont Library, 193, 244, 510, 535, 833, 887, 891, 893–4; Loeb Drama Center, 303n; medical school, 20n, 685, 730n; Memorial Chapel, 362; SP’s recordings for, 244, 510, 887, 891, 893–4; Sanskrit and Indian Studies department, 301n, 308, 320, 323, 325, 542; Widener Library, 301, 308; Woodberry Poetry Room, 192n, 231n, 639n;
Harvard University Press, 32n
Hassell, Jennifer (SP’s literary agent), 548, 555–6, 560, 566, 653n, 660n; SP’s correspondence with, 650–1
Hatch, Robert, 26
Hatch Shell (Boston, Mass.), 271
Hathaway House, 157, 616, 621
Haupt, Garry Eugene, 282
Haverford College, 56
Haworth, England, 558
Hawthornden Prize, 592, 609, 623, 641n
‘Hawthornden Prize Winner at Mexborough Speech Day’, 560n
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 182, 184, 188, 208, 215, 279; ‘The Birthmark’, 182n; ‘Ethan Brand’, 182n; ‘Goodman Brown’, 182n; ‘Lady Eleanore’s Mantle’, 182n; ‘Rappacini’s Daughter’, 182n;
Haydn, Joseph, 744
Hayes, Russell, 312n
Headington School, 703n, 716, 756
Heathcliff (fictitious character: Brontë), 156
Hebden Bridge, England, 74, 78, 372, 377, 395
Hecht, Anthony, 137n, 292n, 682–3; ‘More Light! More Light!’, 627n, 682, 683n; The Seven Deadly Sins, 292
Hedgecoe, John, 429n, 440
Heine, Heinrich, 210, 260n; ‘Die Lorelei’ (quotation from), 260n
Heinemann (firm), 317n, 414–15, 420, 422–3, 426–7, 429, 436, 468, 516, 518, 530, 538, 541–2, 576n, 602n, 660, 664, 701, 704, 718, 723, 793, 819, 908, 928; SP’s correspondence with, see Michie, James; Smith, W. Roger
Heinrichs, Frieda Plath (SP’s aunt), 337–8, 348, 350–1, 363, 366, 394, 399, 456, 465, 475, 484, 506, 513, 526, 606; SP’s correspondence with, 932
Heinrichs, Walter (SP’s uncle), 337n, 350–1, 526, 606
Helsinki, Finland, 181
Hemenway, Robert, SP’s correspondence with, 500–1
Henderson, Isabel Murray, 179, 217
Henry, Clement M. (‘Clem Moore’), 73n, 80, 134, 229, 362, 865–6, 870, 920
Henry, Clement Sulivane, Jr, 73n
Henry Fellowship, 50n, 135
Heptonstall, England, 16n, 45, 372, 377; The Beacon, 11, 124–5, 190, 207, 221, 256, 288, 372–5, 377, 380, 384, 388, 392, 395–6, 409, 431, 504, 506, 558, 563
Herford, Oliver, 197n; ‘I Heard a Bird Sing’, 197
Herrman, Reinhard, The Creation, 896n
Higgins, Brian, The Only Need, 555n
Hilda (fictitious character), 683
Hildebrandt, Dorrit Licht, see Colf, Dorrit Licht
Hildebrandt, Frederick Dean, 113n
Hill, Charles Jarvis, 174, 202
Hill, Ruth, 680n
Hill, Ruth E., 174n
Hindley, Christopher Paton, 383, 393, 397, 408, 412, 416–17, 422, 432–3, 437, 439, 445, 520
Hiroshima, Japan, 697, 888
Hitchcock, Alfred, 206
Hitchen, Herbert, 320
Hobbes, Thomas, 144
Hobson, Harold, 95, 117; ‘A Good Home’ (quotation from), 95n
Hochman, Sandra, ‘Love Fast’, 627n, 639
Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell, 436n
Hoffman, Daniel, ‘An Armada of Thirty Whales’, 627n
Hoffman, Jill, 231n
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 576n; Struwelpeter, 576
Hoggart, Richard, 537n
Holidays, see Boxing Day, Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July, Labor Day, New Year, Thanksgiving Day, Valentine’s Day Hollander, John, 883n
Holloway, John, 178
Hollowood, Bernard, 957n
Holyhead, Wales, 821
Holyoke, Mass., 163, 182
Homer, Odyssey, 302, 513, 515, 522, 525, 542, 544, 805n
Hong Kong, 940, 947
Hoover Company, 478
Hopkins, Ann, 32
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 180, 186, 226, 279, 916–17; Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 917n; ‘God’s Grandeur’, 917n; ‘The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo’, 917n; ‘Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend’, 180; ‘To what serves Mortal Beauty?’
, 917n
Hopkinson, Alfred Stephan, 537n
Horder, John, 542, 547, 896, 906, 910, 912, 943n, 944, 949, 951, 954, 956, 960, 964, 968
Horizon, 771n
Horn Book, The, 300; SP’s work in, 300n, 424–5, 660
Hornbeak, Katherine Gee, 174, 200
Horse & Hound, 589
Horton, Constance, 137n
Hotel Meurice (London), 865n
Hough, Graham, 186n, 190–1, 537n; The Dark Sun: A Study of D. H. Lawrence, 186n; ‘Landmarks and Turbulences’ (quotation from), 186
Houghton Mifflin and Co., 303n, 328
House & Garden, 8, 771n
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, ‘The New Young Writers’, 429n
Howard, Peter, ‘The Last Minutes of Freedom’, 9
Hudja, Baron, 15, 36
Hudson Review, 235, 241, 303, 325, 328; SP’s correspondence with, 661; see also Morgan, George Frederick; SP’s work in, 325n, 372, 424–5, 468, 526, 528, 660–1, 718
Hughes, Ashley (SP’s nephew), 79n, 124
Hughes, Brendon (SP’s nephew), 79n
Hughes, Edith Farrar (SP’s mother-in-law), 46, 60, 74, 78n, 121–2, 128, 138, 146, 151, 372–4, 376–80, 384, 389, 393, 397, 409, 412, 417, 421, 449, 453, 478, 481–4, 504–6, 530n, 538, 552, 554, 556, 558–9, 563–5, 568–9, 584, 591, 599, 695, 698, 708, 710, 747, 758, 764, 773, 775–6, 778, 797, 803, 811, 814, 830, 838–40, 860, 862–3, 870, 872, 890, 918, 926; SP’s correspondence with, 11–13, 30, 77–8, 90, 125–6, 152, 165, 190–1, 207–9, 233, 256–7, 276, 288–91, 298–301, 307–8, 319–20, 351–2, 363–4, 435, 441, 454, 586, 662–3; SP’s descriptions of, 36, 46, 60, 376, 380–1, 389, 397, 505, 556, 764, 773–4, 776, 811, 814; TH’s correspondence with, 90n, 152n, 290n, 363n, 435–6n
Hughes, Edward James, see Hughes, Ted
Hughes, Frieda Rebecca (SP’s daughter), 285n, 379, 382n, 446–63, 465–6, 469, 471–3, 475–9, 482, 484–5, 487–8, 490, 492–3, 495–7, 499, 501–6, 509–25, 526, 528–9, 531–5, 537–41, 543–4, 546, 548–50, 552–62, 564–72, 575, 577–81, 583–5, 587, 589–91, 593, 597–600, 605, 607–11, 614–15, 620–4, 627–31, 633–5, 637–8, 641–4, 647–9, 651, 653–8, 663, 665, 668–75, 677, 680–1, 687–9, 692–9, 702–15, 717, 719, 721–4, 726–33, 735–9, 741, 744–7, 749–52, 755–8, 761, 764–6, 768, 771–2, 774, 776–7, 780–1, 783, 785, 789–90, 792–4, 796–7, 799, 801–2, 804–5, 810–17, 819–22, 825–6, 828–35, 838–52, 855–7, 859–64, 866, 868–70, 873–9, 881, 883–4, 886–8, 890, 892, 895, 897–900, 904–5, 907, 910–16, 919–22, 924, 927–31, 933–8, 940–4, 946–9, 951–62, 964–9; birth of, 446–51, 453, 713, 736; birthday of, 516, 524, 540, 581, 594, 598–600, 607–8, 614–15, 756; christening of, 416, 456, 506, 738, 745; clothes of, 379–80, 384, 416, 453, 456, 458, 468, 474–5, 482–3, 496–7, 502–3, 505–6, 514, 516–17, 522–4, 526, 531–2, 534–6, 538, 541, 543, 549–50, 560, 572, 579–80, 591, 593–4, 597–600, 605, 607, 620, 630–1, 633–4, 641, 649, 651, 665, 668, 672, 698–9, 707, 719, 721, 732, 735, 738, 742, 745, 756–8, 811, 813, 849, 888, 920, 935, 942, 949; godparents of, 456, 506, 518, 527, 552, 559, 564, 568, 575, 611, 614, 860, 900, 945; immunization of, 478, 488, 495; photographs of, 459, 463, 465, 484, 487–8, 492, 497, 501, 505, 507, 510–11, 518, 526, 535, 557, 594, 607, 611, 615, 634–5, 704, 706, 719, 749, 768, 773, 809, 939; SP’s dedications to, 898, 929, 937; SP’s descriptions of, 446–50, 452–5, 458–9, 463, 465, 469, 471–3, 475, 478, 478–9, 482, 484–5, 493, 496–8, 503, 505–6, 509, 511–14, 516, 518–20, 525, 528, 531–2, 535, 537–8, 541, 543, 550, 552–4, 558, 560, 566–7, 569–71, 575, 577, 579–80, 590–1, 593–4, 597, 599–600, 607–8, 611, 622, 624, 628, 633, 637, 641, 644, 649, 651, 653, 655–6, 658, 663, 665, 668, 670, 672, 675, 677, 681, 688–9, 692, 695, 699, 702–4, 706–7, 709–15, 719, 721–3, 727–30, 732, 735–6, 738, 741–2, 744–5, 748–51, 756–8, 761, 764–6, 768, 772, 776, 783, 785, 802, 813, 819, 830, 832–3, 840, 845, 862, 875, 888–9, 905, 912, 915, 920–1, 928, 930–1, 934, 936–7, 942–4, 947–8, 957, 960, 964–5, 968; teething of, 541, 543–5, 552, 554, 558, 567, 569–70, 590, 593, 595, 641; TH’s dedications to, 285n, 400, 408, 598