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.’