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by Sylvia Plath


  Trafalgar Square (London), 151, 422, 461, 653n

  Tragara Press, The, 480n

  Travers, P. L., Mary Poppins, 556, 579

  Trilling, Diana, 235, 241, 306

  Trilling, Lionel, 235, 241

  Trimble, Lester, 357n

  Troth, Joy, 203n

  Truax, Carol, ‘The Apples You Couldn’t Resist’, 699n

  Truax, R. Hawley, 583n

  Truslow, Jane Auchincloss, see Davison, Jane Truslow

  Tryon, North Carolina, 236n

  Trypanis, C. A. (Constantine Athanasius), 63n, 94, 134; ‘The Games’, 94n; The Stones of Troy, 63n, 94; ‘Tutankhamun’, 94n; Venetian Mirrors’, 94n

  Tucker, Robert G. (Garland), 218n, 221

  Tucson, Arizona, 352–3

  Tufts University, 25, 43, 47, 51, 54, 58, 219

  Turkey, 312

  Turner, Lana, 228

  Tyrer, George, 703, 712, 716, 719, 730, 732, 756–7, 764

  Tyrer, Marjorie, 703, 712, 714, 716, 730, 732, 745, 753, 756–7, 764–5, 785

  Tyrer, Nicola, 703, 712, 716, 732, 745, 756, 764–5

  Tyrol (Austria), 357, 836, 859

  Ungerer, Tomi, The Mellops Go Flying, 896n; The Three Robbers, 771n

  UNICEF, 932n, 939n

  Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, 320n

  Unitarianism, 665, 694, 738

  United Diaries, 630, 927

  United Kingdom (‘U.K.’), 277, 808n

  United Nations (‘U.N.’, ‘UN’), 6; Children’s Fund, 932n

  United States, 7, 9, 13, 15, 28–9, 34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 56–7, 59, 61, 70, 73–4, 77–8, 80, 82, 84–6, 89, 98, 100, 102, 105, 110, 113, 115, 117, 120, 122, 124–5, 129–30, 133–4, 136, 138–40, 142, 147, 149–50, 152, 165, 171, 189, 208, 210, 212, 214, 233, 239, 242–3, 249–51, 259, 273, 278, 280–1, 283n, 291, 304, 313, 320–1, 332, 361–2, 367, 378, 380, 383, 387, 392–3, 407, 412, 415, 419, 422, 430, 432, 433n, 437–8, 444, 448, 455–6, 461, 462n, 472, 475–6, 480n, 491, 493, 496, 499, 503, 511n, 526, 528–9, 535, 538–9, 545–6, 568, 574, 579–80, 582, 596, 599, 601, 606, 612, 615–17, 619, 621, 624, 650–1, 656, 672, 696–7, 699, 702, 724–5, 738, 740, 753, 765, 773, 778, 796, 802, 808, 827, 833–4, 848–9, 862, 866–7, 874, 898, 932n, 963–5

  United States, SS, 372–4

  United States Educational Commission in the United Kingdom, 277

  United States, Federal Bureau of Investigation (‘FBI’), 34n

  United States Lines Company, 367

  United States Navy, 46, 51

  University College Hospital (London), 422, 587, 949n

  University of Bonn, 3n

  University of California, Berkeley, 569, 579

  University of Cambridge, 7n, 9, 38, 50, 57–8, 61, 63, 65, 83–4, 91, 93, 95, 116–17, 120, 127n, 130, 142, 146, 182, 186, 190, 214–15, 217, 219–20, 236, 274, 277–8, 325, 371, 420, 429, 464, 472, 492, 521, 695, 726 939; Amateur Dramatics Club (‘ADC’, ‘A.D.C.’), 180; buildings and colleges: Clare College, 9, 472; Clough Hall, 154; Downing College, 85n, 98n, 116n; Emmanuel College, 81n; Falcon Yard, 77n; Girton College, 178n; King’s College, 66, 72, 154, 520; King’s College Chapel, 65, 181; Mill Lane Lecture Hall, 142n; New Hall, 282; Newnham College, 3, 7n, 8, 10, 12, 14, 29–30, 35, 38–9, 85, 97, 108, 153, 154n, 177, 178n, 179, 277, 492n; Old Hall, 153; Pembroke College, 3n, 41, 50n, 61, 436n; Queens College, 178; University Library, 60, 116, 119, 121, 125–6, 135, 137; Whitstead, 7–8, 13, 16–17, 28, 34, 61n, 137, 153–4, 179–80, 217; courses and supervisions: Chaucer, 17, 28, 57, 63, 135, 138, 145, 178; French, 107, 124, 135, 138, 143, 178; English Moralists, 17, 20, 38, 85, 109, 125, 135–6, 138, 143–4, 146, 154, 178, 277, 281; Practical Criticism, 10n, 136, 138; Tragedy, 10n, 109, 121, 124–6, 131, 135, 138, 143, 214–16; dons of, 136, 146, 186; see also individuals; exams at, 109, 119–22, 124, 127, 129, 131, 134–5, 138–9, 142–4, 146; Marlowe Society, 521; May Ball, 108, 121; Varsity, 127n; Women’s Appointments Board, 492

  University of Chicago, 196n, 306, 361, 472, 476, 750

  University of Connecticut, 54, 70

  University of Hull, 536

  University of London, 514

  University of Maryland, 58–9

  University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus), 31n, 54, 203, 205–6, 207, 209, 215, 217–19, 221, 244, 280; Literary Society, 218n, 244n; Norfolk Room (Student Union), 218n; Old Chapel Auditorium, 244n; TH as teacher at, 203, 207, 210–11, 213, 215, 217, 221, 280; Winter Carnival, 209

  University of Michigan, 54, 80n, 204

  University of New Mexico, 216

  University of Oxford, 9, 63, 83, 93–5, 116–17, 127n, 134, 136, 186, 428, 431, 443, 606, 886, 928; Jesus College, 428n

  University of the South, 85n, 112n, 270n, 311, 427

  University of Victoria (BC), 16n, 481n

  University of Washington, 575, 579

  Utah, 342

  Utrillo, Maurice, 410, 420, 479

  Vaillant, George Clapp, Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, and Fall of the Aztec Nation, 253, 256

  Valencia, Spain, 34

  Valentine’s Day, 213

  Van de Carr, Marcia, see Momtchiloff, Marcia

  Van der Poel, Priscilla Paine, 212n, 220

  Van Dyck, Anthony, 637

  Van Winkle, Rip (fictitious character), 15, 519

  Vassar College, 684

  Vaughan Williams Library, 441n

  Venice, Italy, 34, 218

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 619n; La Battaglia di Legnano, 619n; Rigoletto, 619

  Vérité, Marcelle, Animals of the Forest, 771n

  Viereck, Anya de Markov, 156, 163

  Viereck, Peter, 156n, 163

  Vigors, Catherine, 959

  Viking Press, 329

  Villon, François, 671n

  Vincent, Mary Louise, see Back, Mary Louise Vincent

  Virginia, 320, 323

  Virginia (fictitious character), 685

  Virginia Quarterly Review, 12n

  Vogue, 156, 440; ‘People Are Talking About . . .’, 156

  Vogue (UK), 653, 671, 716, 904; TH’s work in, 653n

  W. & G. Foyle, 880n

  W. & J. Sloane, 235, 241

  Waban, Mass., 4n, 654n, 746n

  Wain, John, 908n; An Anthology of Modern Poetry, 908n; ‘The Popular Art of Poetry’, 716n

  Wales, 367, 499, 625n, 667n, 772, 803

  Waley, Arthur David, 547

  Waley, Hubert David, 547n

  Waley, Margaret Hendella, 542–3, 547, 570, 575

  Walford, R. G., 928n; SP’s correspondence with, 932

  Walker, Lola, 475

  Wallace, Dr H. J., 632

  Wallingford, Betsy Powley, 481, 713

  Wallis, Neville, ‘Straight from the Wood’, 760n

  Waltham, Mass., 52, 54

  Waltons, 704n

  Wanning, Andrews, 137n

  War, 6–7, 10, 38; see also Civil War, World War, 1914–18; World War, 1939–45

  ‘Warren J. Plath, Harvard Senior, A Phi Beta Kappa’, 42n

  Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho), 346

  Wash ’n Dri, 337

  Washington (DC), 6, 115, 769

  Waterhouse, Keith, 429n, 440

  Waterloo (London), 150–1, 654, 675, 737, 740, 750, 761, 784, 786, 851, 867, 873, 889, 965

  Watkins, Frank Harold, 689, 709

  Watkins, Leila, 689, 709

  Watling, Victoria Farrar (‘Vicky’/‘Vickie’, TH’s cousin) 78, 191, 288, 300, 307, 378–9, 421, 504, 560, 565, 568, 587, 758, 764, 768, 778, 814, 830, 856

  Waugh, Evelyn, 414

  Weare, Mrs, 838n, 844, 848, 881, 888n, 892, 904, 914, 918

  Webb, Claire, 644n, 703, 712

  Webb, Holly, 644n, 703, 712

  Webb, Hugh Basil G., 644, 650, 663, 703, 709, 711–15, 717, 737, 748–9, 752, 756, 796, 811, 813, 817, 821, 827, 830, 834–5, 864–5, 874, 896, 898, 906, 912, 953–4

  Webb, Joan M. Cairns, 644n, 703, 712, 811, 813, 898, 953–4

  Webster, David, 475

  Webster, John, 121, 214–15, 578; The Duch
ess of Malfi, 214n, 279, 578

  Webster, Lucy, 475

  Weekley, Ernest, 555n

  Weeks, Edward, 16, 59, 211n, 228, 267, 276, 400, 464, 468; SP’s correspondence with, 16, 318; TH’s correspondence with, 211n

  Weiner, Carl, 348n

  Weiner, Ruth, 348n

  Welcher, Rosalind, 327, 374n

  Weller, Susan Lynn, see Burch, Susan Weller Welles, Orson, 204, 468

  Wellesley, Mass., 15n, 19, 38–9, 70–1, 74–5, 88, 103, 109–10, 113–14, 133, 136–7, 153, 155, 157, 196n, 201, 236n, 252, 261, 265, 268, 270, 273, 325, 329–31, 332n, 354–5, 360–1, 362n, 368–71, 373n, 455, 462n, 475n, 481, 502n, 511n, 561, 584, 964, 730n, 738; and wealth, 361, 545; SP’s home (26 Elmwood Road), 15, 27, 29, 37–8, 43, 51, 53, 70–1, 80, 106, 119, 122, 130–3, 136, 142, 153, 155, 157, 248, 267–8, 308, 325, 329–31, 354–5, 366, 368–71, 376, 455, 511, 513, 556, 574, 861, 863; Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills, 20, 730n

  Wellesley College, 135, 141n, 153, 182

  Wellesley High School, 25n, 699n

  Wellesley Hills, Mass., 106n, 730n

  Wellesley National Bank (Fells branch), 366–7, 389, 512, 400, 415, 465, 484, 490, 512, 619, 640, 671

  Wellesley Townsman, The, 14n, 20, 42, 714n

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), The War of the Worlds, 653n

  Welsh National Opera, 619n

  Welwyn Garden City (England), 588

  Wertz, Richard W. (‘Dick’), 236; Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America, 236n

  Wesker, Arnold, 486, 510, 515; Chicken Soup With Barley, 486n, 510n; I’m Talking about Jerusalem, 486n, 510n; Roots, 486n, 494

  West, Rebecca, 537n

  West Indies, 655n

  Westchester County, New York, 566

  Weston, Marybeth Little, 771

  Weston, Mass., 194n, 466

  Westwood, Mass., 123n, 151

  Wetzel, Margaret, see Plath, Margaret Wetzel

  Wevill, Assia, 636, 773, 777n, 783n, 790n, 791–9, 803, 829–30, 832, 834–5, 840, 842–5, 847, 849–52, 855, 857n, 861, 865–6, 868–9, 871, 874, 876–7, 898–9, 925, 937, 945, 958, 961, 968; TH’s correspondence with, 783n

  Wevill, David, 300n, 636, 773, 783n, 791, 793, 796, 847, 849, 851, 868, 871, 877, 937, 945, 961, 968; TH’s correspondence with, 783n

  Whalen, Constance Linko, 156, 162, 233

  Whalen, James J., 156n, 162

  Whalen family, 156n, 162

  Wheaton College, 310n

  Whetstone Gulf, New York, 332, 336

  Whistler, Laurence, ‘The Nine-Day City’, 577n

  Whitby, England, 504, 555n, 681

  White, Edith Dorothy (‘Dodo’), 619, 885, 894, 902; SP’s correspondence with, 816; TH’s correspondence with, 816n

  White, Edward (‘Eddie’), 114

  White, Eric Walter, 154n, 619, 657, 744n, 797n, 802, 883–4; SP’s correspondence with, 638, 816, 885, 894, 902; TH’s correspondence with, 816n

  White, Louise Giesey, 114

  Whitefish Bay (Michigan and Ontario), 335

  Whiteley, Opal Stanley, 912; ‘The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart’, 897

  Whiting, John, 546, 582; The Devils, 582

  Whitman, Anthony, 93n, 130

  Whitman, Constance Smith, 93n, 102, 130

  Whitman, Walt, 241, 272

  WHMP (radio station, Northampton, Mass.), 193

  Wiberg, Harald, 942n

  Wideman, John W., 514n

  Wigg, John Woolnough, 383, 385, 392–3, 404, 412, 421, 442, 446, 448–51, 471, 495, 539, 896, 906, 910, 912

  Wilbur, Mary, 138

  Wilbur, Mrs, 73

  Wilbur, Richard, 57–8, 73, 94, 100, 103, 132, 135, 137–8, 141, 148, 618, 623n, 625; Poems: 1943–1956, 132, 135, 137; ‘Potato’, 618n, 627n; Things of This World, 100n

  Wilcox & Follett, 317n

  ‘Wild Scenes at Whitehall’, 9n

  Wilkes, J. F., 690n, 702n, 704n

  Wilkinson, G. Arthur M., 638n, 797n, 801

  Willard, Buddy (fictitious character), 684

  Wm. C. Codman & Son, 255n

  William Collins Co., 905, 913

  Williams, Edna Rees, 198

  Williams, Jonathan, 884n

  Williams, Oscar, 235, 241, 272, 275; The Pocket Book of Modern Verse, 234, 241, 272, 275; SP’s correspondence with, 234; TH’s correspondence with, 234n

  Williams, Tennessee, Camino Real, 108

  Williams, William Carlos, 91, 94, 141n, 210, 884n; Paterson, 884n

  Williamson, Henry, Tarka the Otter, 653n

  Wilsher, Peter, ‘Heart of the Matter’, 788n

  Wilson, Andrew, Mad Girl’s Love Song, 236n

  Wilson, Edmund, 302

  Wilson, R. Mercer, 456n, 507

  Wilson, Reuel, 302n

  Wilson, Rosalind Baker, 302

  Windward Islands, West Indies, 655n

  Winkleigh, England, 780n, 783, 898n, 905

  Winthrop, Mass., 3n, 31, 102n, 259, 290–1, 384, 684; Schober home (892 Shirley Street), 259, 290–1; SP’s home (92 Johnson Avenue), 31, 259, 290–1; SP’s visits to, 290–1

  Winton, Calhoun, 546

  Winton, Jeffreys, 546

  Winton, Marie, 546

  Wisconsin, 338

  Withens, Top, 36, 121, 320, 322

  Wober, J. M. (Joseph Mallory), 180

  Woman’s Day, 668, 724, 733, 751

  Woman’s Home Companion, 80

  Woman’s Own, 663

  Woman’s Realm, 653, 663, 672, 676

  Woodthorpe, Peter, 542n, 544

  Woody, J. Melvin, 236n

  Wooland, Norman, 542n, 544

  Woolf, Virginia, 101, 158, 161, 164, 192, 274, 301, 305, 431, 469, 531; Jacob’s Room, 158n; To the Lighthouse, 274n; The Waves, 158n; A Writer’s Diary, 101, 161

  Worcester, Mass., 579

  World Publishing Company, 168, 183, 236, 242, 317n

  World War, 1914–18, 79

  World War, 1939–45, 34n, 502n, 777

  Wright, Benjamin Fletcher, 87–8, 175

  Wright, David, 536n

  Wright, James, ‘A Late Afternoon in Western Minnesota’, 627n, 639

  Wyatt, Thomas, 916

  Wynyard, Diana, 108n

  Yaddo (artist’s colony), 296, 298, 309–10, 313, 316, 321, 354–7, 359n, 360, 361n, 363, 364n, 414–15, 419, 441, 464, 496, 660

  Yale Series of Younger Poets, 4, 17, 51, 69, 72, 86, 297, 304, 328, 343, 415, 420, 438, 503

  Yale University, 188, 196, 282, 461, 466, 521, 684; colleges: Jonathan Edwards, 730n

  Yale University Press, 84, 144, 168, 579

  Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, 242

  Yates, Catherine C., 155, 162

  Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 4, 8, 17, 36, 38, 77, 94, 121, 143, 279, 306, 489, 493, 897–8, 905–6, 910, 914–15, 924, 927–8, 933, 935, 939, 943–4, 947, 954–5, 965–7; Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats, 905n, 910, 914, 916, 924, 951; Explorations, 846n; ‘Lapis Lazuli’, 180; The Unicorn from the Stars (quotation from), 905n, 910, 914, 924, 944

  Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, 341–2

  Yellowstone National Park, 332, 334–8, 340–7, 350, 353

  Yorkshire, England, 36, 45–6, 97, 115, 121, 125, 135, 151, 153, 160–1, 190, 208, 215, 251, 275, 283n, 287, 290, 292, 308, 313, 320, 329, 372, 374, 377, 380, 382, 393, 406–7, 409–10, 412, 421, 480, 482, 501, 503–4, 506, 515, 536, 549–51, 553–4, 556, 558–62, 565, 567–8, 576, 599, 609, 628, 630, 688, 733, 746, 847, 851, 856, 860, 943

  Young, Brigham, 346

  Young, Kenneth, 385n

  Young Men’s Hebrew Association (New York) (‘YMHA’), 612n, 702; see also 92nd Street Y

  Young Women’s Christian Association (‘YWCA’), 612n

  Younger, Joan, ‘How America Lives: “Our Baby Was Born at Home”’, 397n

  ‘Yuletide Checklist’, 198n

  Zeeman, E. C. (Erik Christopher), 64, 69

  Zeeman, Elizabeth, see Salter, Elizabeth

  Zeeman, Nicolette, 64

  Photo Section

 
; Sylvia Plath on the foredeck of the Queen Elizabeth, c. 25 June 1957.

  Sylvia Plath’s pocket calendar, 21–24 November 1956.

  Drawing of Winthrop, Massachusetts, from Sylvia Plath to Edith and William Hughes, 17 January 1959.

  Glascock Poetry contestants and judges, c. 18 April 1959. Seated, from left: Marie Borroff, Prof. Joyce Horner, Moira Thompson ’59, John Crowe Ransom. Standing: Jon Roush, Amherst ’59, Sylvia Plath Hughes.

  Items from the photograph album of Plath and Hughes’s cross-country trip, c. 7–10 July 1959. Captioned on the album page by SP: ‘Ready to start on our camping trip around America: July 1959’; ‘Our Canada encampment: Rock Lake’; ‘Feeding blueberries to a Canadian deer’.

  Sylvia Plath at the Grand Canyon, c. 4–5 August 1959.

  Sylvia Plath passport photograph, c. September 1959.

  Drawing of the dust jacket of Lupercal, from Sylvia Plath to Aurelia Plath, 16 January 1960.

  Drawing of the floorplan of the 3 Chalcot Square flat, from Sylvia Plath to Aurelia Plath, 24 January 1960.

  Edith Hughes, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Frieda Hughes, 11 St George’s Terrace, London, 5 June 1960. Captioned on verso by SP: ‘Rebecca 2 months old. My skirt looks short here but it was just caught up. Taken near Ted’s flat. There is a garden belonging to Merwin, a friend of Ted’s, also a writer.’

  Sylvia Plath and Frieda, c. June 1960. Captioned on verso by SP: ‘Frieda & me – she in her lacy white dress you sent – doesn’t it look sweet on her?’

  Sylvia Plath’s submissions list, 9 July 1960–12 April 1961.

  Sylvia Plath atop Primrose Hill, c. 16 June 1960.

  Drawing of sailcloth top, from Sylvia Plath to Aurelia Plath, 27 August 1960.

  Sylvia Plath and Frieda Hughes in 3 Chalcot Square, c. 23 September 1960.

  Drawing of a child’s dress, from Sylvia Plath to Aurelia Plath, 6 November 1960.

  The Bell Jar, second draft of Chapter 1, c. April–July 1961.

  Sylvia and Frieda, January 1961. Captioned on verso by SP: ‘Frieda Rebecca age 9 months plus her mother & her teddy bear.’

  Frieda’s first birthday, 1 April 1961. Sent with letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, 27 April 1961. Captioned on verso by SP: ‘Frieda plus birthday cake & birthday balloon, April 1, 1961.’

 

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