by Sylvia Plath
French language: 891, 895, 954, 997, 1065; learning, 87, 106–7, 134, 137, 147, 160, 172, 179, 181, 183, 185–6, 189, 200, 202, 206–9, 211–12, 214, 222, 224, 233, 236, 250, 266–7, 277, 295, 300, 316, 321, 323–4, 329, 332, 742, 798, 880, 951, 969, 975, 981, 985, 989, 998, 1000, 1004, 1005–6, 1029, 1031, 1046, 1077, 1085, 1124, 1128, 1153, 1297; speaking, 733, 737, 956, 964, 985, 1043, 1044, 1047, 1055, 1063, 1067; writing, 134, 143, 198–9, 254, 290
Freud, Sigmund, 589, 669, 739n, 823, 838, 866, 1003; Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, 588–9
Friedman, Elinor, see Klein, Elinor Friedman
Friedman, Muriel, 355n
Frisch, Marianne, 1145n
Fromm, Erich, 851; Escape from Freedom, 755, 759, 780
Frost, Robert, 153, 435–6, 670, 761, 768; The Pocket Poems of Robert Frost, 109
Fry, Christopher, 192, 216, 613n, 1041, 1107; The Lady’s Not For Burning, 192n, 215, 275, 938n, (quotation from) 690–1; Ring Round the Moon, 613, 615, 624, 628; Venus Observed: A Play, 727
Fulbright Scholar Awards, 444, 754, 784, 802–5, 809, 813, 816, 823, 852, 857, 859, 869, 872, 874–5, 880, 888, 897–8, 902–4, 910–11, 918, 921, 928–30, 932, 934, 944, 973, 978, 986, 999, 1004, 1006, 1012, 1041–2, 1052, 1061, 1080, 1082, 1099, 1101, 1103–4, 1106, 1109–10, 1136, 1139–40, 1142–3, 1147–8, 1150, 1152–4, 1158, 1160, 1162, 1167, 1177, 1179, 1187, 1194, 1196, 1202, 1207, 1225, 1237, 1241, 1245, 1248, 1251, 1257, 1264, 1267n, 1269, 1275, 1285, 1287, 1290, 1299, 1316, 1321–4, 1326–8
Gaberbocchus Press, 1037n
Gable, Clark, 829
Gábor, Eva, 1303
Gaebler, Carolyn Farr, 33n
Gaebler, Max, 33n
Gaebler, Ralph, 33n
Gaîté Parisienne, 611
Gallup, William Albert, Jr (‘Bill’), 185, 190, 193, 206, 209, 227, 271–2; SP’s dating of, 183, 202, 214, 216, 220
Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School, see Wellesley High School
Gandhi, Mahatma, 914
Garbo, Greta, 395, 1100
García Lorca, Federico, 1099; The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife, 1099
Garden House Hotel, 1170, 1205
Gardner, Amelia Remondelli (‘Amy’), 852, 871
Gardner, Ava, 642n
Gardner, Charles Shoop, III, 512, 525, 852, 1152
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 334, 377; see also Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Gardner, John Lowell (‘Jack’), 377n
Garson, Greer, 30
Gate of Hell (motion picture), 864, 867, 870, 872
Gauguin, Paul, 900, 1069, 1110
Gautier, Théophile, ‘The Mummy’s Foot’, 38n
Gay, John, Three Hours after Marriage, 983n, 985, 988–90, 992, 995, 1000
Gay Head, Mass., 94, 101
Geary, Mary R., 937, 936, 1204
Geary, Rex I., 936n, 1204
Gebauer, A. George, 699n, 703, 705–6, 724–5, 728, 730, 731–3, 736, 938, 940–1, 943, 946
Geisel, Ruth, 103–4, 221, 226, 230, 845, 847, 849
Geissler, Arthur J., 16n, 765n, 825, 888n
Geissler, Ruth Prescott (‘Ruthie’, ‘Ruthy’), 16, 20, 24, 45n, 46, 60, 65–76, 78, 84–5, 89, 97, 105, 113–15, 118, 121–2, 124–6, 128, 130–1, 212, 215, 267, 374, 394, 400, 408, 456, 480, 664, 724, 728, 764–5, 767, 825, 888, 901, 906, 923, 933, 1016, 1052–3, 1206, 1234, 1299
Gendron, Valerie (‘Val’), 482, 492, 494–6, 498; ‘Second Blooming’, 482n
George VI, King, 34n
George Washington Bridge (New York), 609
Georgetown, Mass., 695n
Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 958
German language: 1037, 1044; learning, 737, 739, 798, 811, 852, 880, 951, 1080, 1124, 1141, 1153, 1260, 1295; speaking, 810–13, 822, 1038; writing, 810–13, 826, 831
Germans, 151, 153, 167, 397, 949–50, 952, 1078, 1100
Germany, 87, 110–12, 136–7, 139–41, 144, 147, 158–9, 162, 163n, 397–8, 691n, 953, 1008, 1013, 1015, 1038, 1044, 1074, 1080, 1084, 1093, 1096, 1100, 1104, 1108, 1121–2, 1124, 1127, 1140, 1143, 1145, 1148, 1151–2, 1205, 1224; see also individual towns and cities
Gibian, George, 674n, 694, 704, 740, 755, 759, 802, 803n, 805–6, 809–11, 817, 825–7, 836, 839, 842, 846, 854, 858, 861–2, 866, 1114
Gibian, J. Catherine Annis, 759n
Gibian family, 759
Gibraltar, 662, 1132
Gielgud, John, 1013
Giesey, Louise, see White, Louise Giesey
Gilbert, Dick, 145n, 146
Gilbert, Lou, 864n
Gilbert, Stuart, 646; James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, 645, 646n
Gill, Brendan, 899
Gilling, Christopher Richard (‘Dick’), 994, 995, 998, 1083
Gillis, Don, 82
Gilmore, George, 585
Ginling College, 231n
Ginny, 145, 940
Gittelson, Natalie (‘Nat’), 490
Glascock Poetry Prize, see Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize
Glaser, Olive Milne Smith, 300
Gloucester, Mass., 312, 359
Glover, Hank, 148n
Godden, Margaret Rumer, 633
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 737, 780, 810; Faust, 1013
Goldberg, Joyce Stocklan, 183
Goldstein, Alexander, Jr, 714, 810, 818–19, 820
Goldwyn, Samuel, 171n
Good Housekeeping, 1143
Goodkind, Anne, see Bird, Anne Goodkind
Goodman, Leo A., 181n
Gorton, Mrs, 181, 218
Goya, Francisco, 427
Grable, Betty, 1198n
Graduate Record Examination, 813, 814, 876
Graham, Paul Gerald, 806n, 810, 813
Grand Central Station (radio programme), 719n
Grand Marquee, The, 82
Grant, Cary, 203
Granta, 1308, 1318–19, 1322; SP’s work in, 1318
Grantchester, UK, 986, 989, 996–8, 1003, 1017, 1034, 1043, 1049, 1057, 1142, 1149, 1167, 1170, 1185, 1189, 1284–5, 1313
Graves, Robert, 1256, 1275; ‘A Bouquet From a Fellow Roseman’, 1256n
Gray, Anthony James (‘Tony’), 1156–8
Gray, Sir James, 1156n
Gray, Sally, 1156–7
Gray, William Dodge, 823, 825, 827, 829, 833
Gray Stamp Company, 80
Great Britain, 891; Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, 982, 1081, 1085, 1101, 1109, 1202, 1294, 1310; Metropolitan Police, 1175; National Health Service, 981, 988, 995, 1112, 1143, 1148, 1231; Royal Air Force, 1188, 1245
Great Waltz, The (motion picture), 104
Grebenhain, Germany, 87n, 112
Greece, 1038, 1041, 1055, 1080, 1104, 1311
Greek, 978
Green, Elizabeth, 927
Green, Timothy Seton, 1167n, 1172n, 1175, 1178n
Greene, Theodore Meyer, 559, 571, 580–1, 583, 585; ‘Protestantism in an Age of Uncertainty’, 559
Greenough, Gayle, 52–3, 56, 60, 66, 68, 71, 75
‘Greensleeves’, 672, 1009, 1058
Greenstreet, Sydney, 718
Greenwich Village (New York), 403, 508, 512, 634, 638, 640, 642, 716, 718–19
Greenwood, Joan, 669
Greer, Holly, 441n
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 1123n; ‘The Valiant Little Tailor’, 1123n; Märchen der Brüder Grimm, 1123n, 1200
Griswold, Alfred Whitney, 335n
Grosset & Dunlap, 1329
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (‘Gitmo’), 858, 860
Guggenheim Foundation, see John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Guilloton, Madeleine, 181n, 209
Guinea, Mrs, 1256
Guinness, Alec, 662, 942, 1316, 1327
Gunde (Giunta), Joe, 146
Gunn, Thom, 1253
H. E. Harris & Co., 30, 36–7, 81
H. Samuel (firm), 1266
Hahn, Emily, 1112
Haile, Jeanne Woods, 142, 227, 277, 768, 792n
Hall, Donald, ‘Valentine’, 898n
Hall, John A., 150, 191, 203, 314, 419
Hall, Peter, 1316
Halliburton, Richard, 41; The Flying Carpet, 41; The Glorious Adventure, 41; New Worlds to Conquer, 41; The Royal Road to Romance, 41
Halloween, 212, 516
Hamm, Charlotte, 936n
Hamm, Thelma V., 936–7
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 82n
Hampton Beach, NH, 355
Hamsun, Knut, Growth of the Soil, 333
Handel, George Frederic, 143, 443
Handleman, Avrom R., 692n, 729, 737n, 795, 844, 847, 852, 905–6, 1189
Handleman, Elizabeth Claiborne Philips, 692, 695, 703, 724–5, 729, 737n, 742, 758, 795, 827, 844–7, 852, 899, 905–6, 1189
Handy, Mary, 908n
Hannover, Germany, 1121
Hanover, NH, 210, 215, 504, 510, 763
Hanzel, Richard Roger, 957
Hardy, Thomas, 169, 214n; ‘The Man He Killed’, 169; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 214, 221–2
Harlem (New York), 716–17
Harper & Row, 1311–13, 1320
Harper’s Bazaar, 939
Harper’s Magazine, 218, 595, 598–9, 601–3, 605, 609, 621, 625, 656, 683–5, 709–11, 839, 843, 862, 896, 939–40, 1200; SP’s work in, 708, 739, 743, 974, 1163
Hartford, Conn., 1299
Hartman, Dennis, 526n
Harvard Coop, 573, 1089, 1106
Harvard Crimson, 669
Harvard Square (Cambridge, Mass.), 792
Harvard University, 3n, 200, 248, 337, 520, 586, 596, 600–1, 615–16, 619, 633, 655, 668, 685, 773, 786, 946, 977, 998, 1002, 1039, 1041, 1043, 1058, 1085, 1094, 1099, 1150, 1237, 1247, 1255, 1327; Adams House, 702, 715, 738n; graduate programmes, 722, 755, 780, 784, 806, 809–10, 813–14, 839, 874–5, 880; Harvard stadium, 955; law school, 458, 780; medical school, 291, 298, 343, 383, 396, 416, 420, 422, 427, 431, 444, 514, 557, 572, 1094; prom, 933; Widener Library, 586, 785–6, 793–4, 833, 837; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 839, 845, 852, 859, 861, 868–9, 872, 874–5, 877, 888, 894, 902, 1099, 1150
Harvard University Press, 859n, 943, 952
Harvard University Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education, 474, 521, 575, 586, 598, 600, 607, 614, 616, 618–21, 625, 634, 636, 648, 654–5, 715–16, 737, 742, 752, 754, 758, 774, 780, 782, 790n, 1260;
courses: Elementary German, 715, 721, 737n, 780, 783, 785–7, 792, 795, 797–8, 802–3; Nineteenth-Century Novel, 737n, 780, 783
Harvey (motion picture), 275, 277
Harwich, Mass., 464, 473, 475, 480, 484, 489
Harwich Port, Mass., 476n, 489
Haskell, Susan (‘Marty’), 353
Hathaway House, 109, 905
Haupt, Garry Eugene, 1136, 1141–3, 1157
Haven, Sally Ann, 56, 98
Hawaii, 238
Hawkes, James M., 737n
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 674, 698, 701–2, 705, 1129n; Hawthorne’s Short Stories, 678n, 685; ‘Rappacini’s Daughter’, 1129, 1131; The Scarlet Letter, 694–5
Haydn, Joseph, 408, 933
Hayes, Eleanor (‘Hayzee’), 26
Hayes, Joseph, 931n
Hayes, Russell, 181n
Hayes, Wentworth, 26n
Hayworth, Rita, 9
Heathcliff (fictional character: Brontë), 1243
Hebden Bridge, UK, 1233, 1237
Hecht, Anthony, 626n
Heels, Dr George E., 791–2
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 759
Heine, Heinrich, 993
Heinrichs, Frieda Plath (SP’s aunt), 209; SP’s correspondence with, 21
Hemingway, Carol, 495n
Hemingway, Ernest, 165, 320, 333, 427, 432, 495, 507n, 543, 721, 780, 879, 1254; ‘Hills Like White Elephants’, 780; The Old Man and the Sea, 507; short stories, 780; ‘The Snows’, 780; The Sun Also Rises, 333, 481, 780
Hemry, Mary Ann, 514, 522
Henderson, Isabel Murray, 967n, 1081, 1085, 1099, 1112, 1196, 1202, 1272, 1293
Henley, William Ernest, ‘Invictus’ (quotation from), 355
Henry, Clement M. (‘Clem Moore’), 230, 261, 714, 719–20, 725, 749, 771, 810, 820, 929, 1002
Henry, Clement Sulivane, Jr, 261n
Hepburn, Katharine, 959
Heptonstall, UK, 1233, 1237; The Beacon, 1230n, 1231, 1233, 1235, 1237, 1240–2, 1244
Hersey, Peter, 523
Herter, Christian Archibald, 524
Higgins, Marguerite, 831, 1167
Hildebrandt, Dorrit Licht, see Colf, Dorrit Licht
Hillbrand, Mary, 48n
Hiller, Wendy, 728
Hillyer, Robert, 1268; ‘The Victim’, 1268n
Himalaya Mountains, 1014, 1018, 1023–4
Hindemith, Paul, 640, 735, 782, 993, 1306
Hirsch, Edith, see Hull, Edith Hirsh
Hitchcock, Alfred, 718, 960
Hitchcock, Sue, 769, 771, 777
Hitler, Adolf, 285, 291
Hitler Youth, 285, 291
Hoag, John, 85n
Hodges, John Suffern, 145, 319, 357, 522, 768
Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 817, 823, 838, 866, 1301; ‘Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht’, 1301n
Holidays, see Boxing Day, Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, New Year, Thanksgiving Day, Valentine’s Day, Washington’s Birthday
Holland, see Netherlands
Holleman, David, 720n
Holloway, John, 1297, 1302
Holmes, John, 1175, 1177n
Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character), 1022
Holt, Frederick Rodney, 350, 358
Holyoke, Mass., 222, 299, 537, 584, 732, 905, 908
Homer, Winslow, 46
Hong Kong, 385, 513, 562
Honig, Margot (‘Margo’), 707, 715, 725, 810
Hooker, Richard, 1302, 1319
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 547, 709, 1165–6, 1173–4, 1179, 1250, 1286; ‘Harry Plowman’, 747
Horner, Joyce, 909; SP’s correspondence with, 909–10, 927–8
Horniman, Roy, 465n
Horton, Rosamond, see Lownes, Rosamond Horton
Hôtel de Béarn (Paris), 1154n
Hôtel de la Harpe (Paris), 1063n
Hôtel des Deux Continents (Paris), 1210, 1232, 1238, 1240
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1152; ‘XLV. If it chance your eye offend you’ (quotation from), 1152; ‘LXII. Terrence, this is stupid stuff’, 756–7
Howard, Leslie, 725, 728, 731
Howard, Sally, 56n
Howard Johnson (firm), 877, 940n
Huckleberry Finn (fictional character), 1187–8
Hudnut, Richard, 633
Hudson, William Henry, 686n; Green Mansions, 686
Hudson River (New York and New Jersey), 609–10
Huey, E. G. (Edward Green), What Makes the Wheels Go Round, 335
Hugenberger, Paul Willard, 565, 567–8, 582
Hugh, 328
Hughes, Ashley (TH’s nephew), 1194n
Hughes, Brendon (TH’s nephew), 1194n
Hughes, Edith Farrar (TH’s mother), 1230n, 1231, 1238, 1242–3, 1245–6, 1248–9, 1258, 1276; SP’s descriptions of, 1242, 1248–9
Hughes, Edward James, see Hughes, Ted
Hughes, Gerald (TH’s brother), 1194, 1234, 1242
Hughes, Joan Whelan (SP’s sister-in-law), 1194n 1242; SP’s descriptions of, 1242
Hughes, Olwyn Marguerite (TH’s sister), 1186n, 1193, 1201, 1219, 1231, 1233, 1238; P’s descriptions of, 1215, 1231
Hughes, Sylvia Plath, see Plath, Sylvia
HUGHES, TED
(Edward James Hughes, SP’s husband), 1116n, 1120, 1161n, 1164–5, 1167, 1173, 1175, 1180, 1190, 1203–6, 1208–10, 1212–55, 1259, 1261, 1288–90, 1299–1300, 1323–4, 1326–9; birthdays of, 1188; character of, 1174, 1184, 1191, 1194, 1199, 1201, 1227; clothes of, 1187, 1189, 1194, 1196, 1203, 1208, 1215, 1219, 1223, 1232, 1258, 1260, 1267, 1270, 1290, 1299–1300, 1319; cooking of, 1177; drawings of, 1194, 1196, 1206, 1298; exercise of, 1167, 1244; finances of, 1187, 1200, 1205, 1208, 1215, 1219, 1225, 1230–4, 1248, 1250–1, 1262, 1270, 1290,
1319, 1321, 1323, 1326; gardening of, 1165, 1174, 1188; honeymoon of, 1209–41, 1326; hygiene of, 1213, 1231–2, 1239, 1267, 1269, 1290; illnesses of, 1220, 1242; marriage service and anniversaries of, 1206n, 1207–8, 1234, 1236–8, 1243, 1245–6, 1249–50, 1255, 1259, 1261–2, 1290, 1323; nursing of SP, 1220, 1225; occupations of, 1120, 1165, 1174, 1188, 1203, 1245, 1247; personality of, 1174, 1191, 1201; photographs of, 1188, 1243, 1249, 1257; publications of, 1209, 1230, 1234, 1238, 1253, 1297, 1323, 1326; reading of, 1187, 1193, 1207, 1236, 1261; recordings of, 1248, 1250, 1287–8, 1300, 1320, 1329; SP’s correspondence with, 1255–9, 1265–88, 1291–9, 1301–22, 1325–6; SP’s dating of, 1164–5, 1167, 1173–4, 1177, 1179–81, 1184–8, 1193–5, 1201, 1206; SP’s descriptions of, 1161, 1164–5, 1173–4, 1180–1, 1184–9, 1191–3, 1201, 1203, 1205, 1215, 1220, 1224–5, 1231–2, 1234–7, 1243–6, 1253–4, 1258, 1261, 1280, 1297, 1306, 1319; SP’s first meeting of, 1120, 1203; SP’s marriage to, 1206n, 1207–8, 1224; SP’s premarital relationship with, 1281, 1319; SP’s relationship with, 1179; unemployment of, 1200, 1203, 1215, 1236, 1248; see also Creative writing of Ted Hughes
WORKS OF TED HUGHES
‘Bartholomew Pig’, see ‘Bartholomew Pygge, Esq.’;
‘Bartholomew Pygge, Esq.’, 1244, 1254;
‘Bawdry Embraced’, 1209n, 1231, 1243, 1259;
‘Bayonet Charge’, 1258;
Birthday Letters, 1266n;
‘Bluebeard’s Last Bride’, 1280n;
‘Callum Makers, The’, 1210, 1234, 1244, 1254;
‘Dolly Topplebull mourns her ascendant Vanity’, 1280n;
‘Egg-Head’, 1265, 1278, 1309;
‘Fidelity’, 1266n;
‘Hag, The’, 1230;
Hawk in the Rain, The, 1320;
‘Hawk in the Rain, The’, 1258;
‘Horses of the Sun, or the Mark of a Modern Apollo, The’, see ‘Phaetons’;
How the Animals Became (unpublished fables), 1221, 1224, 1229, 1253;
‘How the Donkey Became’, 1221, 1308;
How the Donkey Became and Other Fables (unpublished fables), 1229, 1231, 1253, 1261, 1287, 1289–90, 1297, 1299, 1301, 1303, 1315n, 1329;
‘How the Hyena Became’, 1221, 1224;
How the Whale Became, 1221n;
Letters of Ted Hughes, 1280n, 1286n, 1292n, 1302n, 1319n;
‘Macaw and Little Miss’, 1258;
‘O’Kelly’s Angel’, 1210, 1224–5, 1230, 1234, 1236, 1244, 1254;
‘Phaetons’, 1275n, 1281, 1297;
‘Secret Phaetons’, see ‘Phaetons’;
‘Soliloquy’, 1185n;
‘Soliloquy of a Misanthrope’, see ‘Soliloquy’;
‘Two Wise Generals’, 1258;
‘Very pleased with himself was littke [sic] Willie Cribe’ [first line], 1294n;