by Sylvia Plath
McCall’s Magazine, 627, 1143, 1210
McCarthy, Joseph, 435–6, 443, 516, 520, 523, 893
McCauley, Carol Sameth, 419n
MacCoby, Michael, ‘The Confidential Clerk at the Colonial’, 669
McCormack, Patricia (‘Patty’), 847n
McCullers, Carson, 631; The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Collected Short Stories, 798n
McCurdy, Magda Bergliot Andresen, 687n
McCurdy, Philip Emerald, 334n, 337, 619, 637; SP’s correspondence with, 673–6, 687–9, 698–701, 726–8, 736–9, 749–53
MacDonald, Margot, 191, 490
MacDowell, Edward, 473, 476
McGinley, Phyllis, 1084
McGoun, Gretchen, 10
McGowan, Edith A., 1086n, 1204
McGowan, Robert, 793, 1086n, 1204
McGowan, Robert G., 1086n, 1204
McGowan, Ruth C., 1086n, 1204
McGrath, Elizabeth Blanton, 259–60, 280, 418
McGrath, Robert Gregory, 418
McIntyre, Elaine, 799
McKelvey, Lynne, ‘The Threshold’, 261n
MacKenzie, Frances Yvonne White, 508n
Mackenzie, Patrick T., 1077n
MacKenzie, Richard Charles, 984n
McLaren, Norman, 443n, 1002n
McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.), 649n, 651n, 652–3, 663, 665, 695–7, 804, 809, 1150, 1176; Codman ward, 653n, 656–7, 657n; Gazette, 653; South Belknap ward, 653n, 654, 657n, 696, 1150; Wyman ward, 657n
MacLeish, Archibald, 597, 601, 1091
MacMahon, Bryan, ‘O, Lonely Moon!’, 898n
Macmillan & Co., 1329
McNeely, James DuBois, 506, 509–10
MacNeice, Hedli, see Anderson, Hedli
MacNeice, Louis, 490, 1002, 1311–12; ‘Snow’ (quotation from), 490
MacNeice, Mary Ezra, 1312n
Madeira, Albert Pierpont, 205, 275, 303
Madeira, Beatrice von Baur, 303
Mademoiselle (‘Mme’, ‘Mlle’), 363, 385, 389, 424–5, 431, 436, 446–51, 453, 456, 458, 463n, 480–1, 489, 492–3, 514, 521, 526, 539–40, 548, 550, 553–4, 556, 570, 575–6, 583, 595–6, 599, 601, 612, 617–19, 621, 625, 626n, 627, 640–1, 671, 705n, 717, 739n, 768, 801, 835n, 863, 877n, 880, 898n, 899, 900–1, 908, 918–9, 929, 933–4, 948, 1099, 1187, 1192, 1243, 1246, 1252, 1254, 1260, 1291, 1304, 1309; College Board of, 526, 539–40, 550, 554, 565, 570, 572, 575, 577, 588, 596, 601–2, 615, 618–19, 626–7, 629, 930; college fiction contest of, 446–50, 863, 880, 918; Dylan Thomas Poetry Award, 835, 929; SP’s guest editorship at, 456, 613, 621, 626, 630–43, 654, 683–4, 722, 768, 801, 1254; SP’s correspondence with, 898–9; SP’s submissions to, 553, 877, 1297; SP’s work in, 446, 463, 480, 493, 532n, 599, 626n, 631n, 634, 683, 896, 898n, 901, 908n, 915–16, 929, 934, 936, 944, 948, 974, 1163, 1263, 1297
Madrid, Spain, 1077, 1200, 1210–13, 1215, 1216n, 1217, 1219, 1221–3, 1238, 1241
MaGilura, Mary, 215
Maher, Ramona, ‘Conjectured Harbours’, 705n, 708; SP’s correspondence with, 708–12
Maidenform, 858
Maine, 39, 44, 67, 341–2, 362, 1229
Majorca, Spain, 1103
Malik, Jacob, 1176
Malik, Valentina, 1176
Malin, Patrick Murphy, 443
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 742
Malleson, Miles, 1013
Malley, John F., SP’s correspondence with, 414–15
Maltese Falcon, The (motion picture), 718
‘Man I Love, The’, 869
Manchester, UK, 1304
Mann, Erika, 1311
Mann, Thomas, 158, 160, 162–3, 257, 262, 479, 1200; Buddenbrooks, 162; Der Zauberberg, 162
‘Man’s Right Place’, 798n
Mansfield, Richard Edward George (‘Dick’), 985, 986n, 989, 998, 1002
Manzi, Louis, 305
Marais, Jean, 1132
Marblehead, Mass., 347, 353n, 356, 359, 361, 364, 763
March, William, Bad Seed, The, 847n
Margot, 1155
Mariana Islands, 238
Marion, Mass., 133
Mark, Enid, 200, 306, 425, 438n, 542, 555, 587, 615, 665; ‘On Seeing the Renoir Show’, 425; SP’s correspondence with, 483–6, 665–6, 866–7
Mark, Eugene L., 665n, 867
Market Hill (Cambridge, UK), 968, 971, 993, 997, 1000, 1025, 1041, 1047, 1054, 1056–7, 1269
Marland, Eileen Lim, 1318n, 1319
Marland, Michael, 1318–19
Marlowe, Christopher, 1122; Doctor Faustus, 1130
Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), The Late George Apley, 153
Marriage, 270, 417, 570, 581, 655, 688, 698, 781, 791, 794, 867, 869, 918, 932, 1084, 1090, 1093–4, 1113, 1127, 1131, 1141, 1144, 1150, 1188, 1195, 1197, 1203–5; SP’s ideal husband, 662, 723, 933, 1050
Marseille, France, 1076, 1224
Marshall, Elizabeth, see Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
Marshall, Lois, 967n, 971–2, 1202n
Marshall, William, 948n
Marshall Field’s, 270, 279
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 94, 104, 119, 947, 949–50, 952; Menemsha harbour, 949
Martin, Joyce, 40–1, 44
Martin, Mary, 1066, 1068, 1087, 1103
Marvell, Andrew, ‘To His Coy Mistress’, 828n
Marx, Karl, 759; Marxism, 425
Mary Poppins, 275, 961
Maslow, Sophie, 761n; ‘Folksay’, 761n; ‘Manhattan Suite’, 761n; ‘The Village I Knew’, 761n
Mason, Eddie, 146n
Massachusetts, 111, 368, 524; see also individual towns
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), 649n, 656
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (‘M.I .T.’, ‘MIT’), 96n, 424, 658, 1076; chapel, 941n; Kresge Auditorium, 941n, 1058n;
Massey, Daniel Raymond, 996n, 1013, 1042, 1048, 1055, 1083
Massey, Raymond, 995, 1013, 1042, 1048, 1055
Materialism, 159, 993, 1131, 1247–50, 1260, 1300
Mathers, Madelyn, 632n
Matisse, Henri, 1074; see also Chapelle du Rosaire
Matthau, Walter, 469n
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset, 465n; see also Somerset Maugham Award
Maxwell, William, 1314; ‘The French Scarecrow’, 1314
Mayer, Frank Dewey, Jr (‘Freddy’), 1099n
Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 171n
Mayo, Anne Blodgett, 308, 315, 337, 339, 341–2, 344, 348, 353–4, 362, 370, 398
Mayo, Esther (‘Pinny’), 308n, 338, 340–1, 343–4, 347–8, 350–1, 357–8, 363, 366–7, 373, 398, 414
Mayo, Frederic B., 308n, 337, 340, 342, 348, 354, 363, 370, 398
Mayo, Frederic B., Jr (‘Freddy’, ‘Freddie’), 308n, 338–41, 343–4, 347–8, 351, 353, 357–8, 363–4, 366, 373, 398, 414
Mayo, Joanne (‘Joey’), 308n, 338, 340–1, 343–4, 347–8, 357–8, 363, 366–7, 373, 398, 414
Mayo family, 329–30, 334, 340, 360, 365–6, 470, 472–3, 478, 480, 599; Abigail (dog), 339–40, 344, 348; Helen (maid), 338, 344, 354, 366–7, 634; Mistral (boat), 308, 330, 358; Warren (cook), 358–9
Means, W. D. (Winthrop Dickison), 972
Mediterranean Sea, 785, 955, 1001, 1055, 1067, 1071, 1088, 1105, 1110, 1151, 1154, 1218, 1222, 1229, 1238
Medium, The (motion picture), 443n
Melville, Herman, 674, 721, 724, 725, 1154; Billy Budd, 726; Selected Tales and Poems, 726n
Memorial Day, 415
Memories of Whitstead, 967n, 1269n
Mendelssohn, Felix, 640
Menemsha (boat), 94, 98, 104
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 443n; The Saint of Bleecker Street (musical drama), 907
Mensel, Mary E., 209, 211–12, 214, 232–3, 239, 241, 301, 312, 316, 319, 423–4, 541, 550, 554, 606, 684, 695, 813, 823
Menton, France, 1073, 1105, 1151
Meredith, Magda Elizabeth McCurdy, 687n
Merritt Parkway (Conn.), 750, 752
Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1107; Darkling Child, 1107
Meshoulem, Isaac (‘Iko’), 1030n, 1085, 1102, 1105,
1119, 1166
Mesta, Perle, 1269
Metamorphoses (choreographic work), 633n, 637, 640
Methuselah, 388
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 77
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 717
Mexico, 704, 893
Meyer family, 341n, 366
Michael, Robert, 361n
Michaelides, Maria Canellakis, 441
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1160
Michelsen, Barbara Ingeborg, see Tufts, Barbara Ingeborg Michelsen
Middlebury College, 437n, 557–8, 565, 582, 1247; Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference of, 437, 457, 521; Carnival, 557
Mikesell, William Henry, 1288n; Modern Abnormal Psychology, 1288
Milan, Italy, 1080
Miles Standish Reservation (Plymouth, Mass.), 63
Mill Hill Club, The (West Yarmouth, Mass.), 464
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 234, 718, 1181, 1268, 1330; ‘Recuerdo’ (quotation from), 718
Miller, Arthur, The Crucible, 610, 622;
Death of a Salesman, 722n
Miller, Buzz, 1104
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), The House at Pooh Corner, 11; Winnie-the-Pooh, 275, 63, 767, 1061
Milne, Mrs, 967, 971, 974, 1256, 1266–7, 1269, 1272, 1294
Milne, Olive, see Glaser, Olive Milne Smith
Milton, John, 544, 976, 1004, 1005, 1042, 1047, 1302; ‘L’allegro and Il Penseroso’, 622; Paradise Lost, 570, 1273
Milton, Mass., 1310n
Minton, Nathaniel David (‘Than’), 1116n, 1319
Mirbeau, Octave, 983n; Epidemics (The Epidemic), 983n, 995, 1008
Miró, Joan, Femmes, Oiseau au Clair de Lune, 1063
Miss America Pageant, 957, 987
‘Missing Co-ed Found’, 654n
Missouri, 238
Mitchell, Margaret, 153; Gone with the Wind, 153, 829
Mixtec Indians, 965
Modern Library (firm), 519, 522
Modigliani, Amedeo, 749
Modlin, Jill Garvin, 571–2, 574, 581, 597, 614, 648
Modlin, Robert Kent (‘Bob’), 571–2, 574, 581, 614–15, 618–19, 648
Molesworth, Mrs (Mary Louisa), The Cuckoo Clock, 997
Molière, 1044, 1058n; The Misanthrope, 1044n, 1958; see also Wilbur, Richard
Monaco, 1071, 1073, 1088, 1105, 1151
Mondrian, Piet, 1157
Montmartre (Paris), 1066, 1068, 1087, 1104, 1153, 1157–8, 1232
Monroe, Marilyn, 600, 645
Montague, James L., ‘Chokecherries’, 1270n
Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1073, 1088, 1105
Moore, Clement, see Henry, Clement M.
Moore, Leonard Patrick, 261n
Moore, Marianne, 670n, 908, 927, 1313; Collected Poems, 908n, 909
Moore, Peter Vincent, 720, 963
Moore, Ray, 372, 418, 431
Moore, Sarah-Elizabeth, see Rodger, Sarah-Elizabeth
Mormon Church, 140, 631
Morningside Heights (New York), 717
Morningside Park (New York), 719
Morocco, 887–9, 891–2, 894–5, 1103
Morrill, Sophia L., 147n
Morris, Irene V., 1267, 1294
Morrison, Margaret, 406
Morrow, Cynthia, 508, 531
Morses Pond (Wellesley, Mass.), 476
Moscow, Russia, 841, 1103
Mount Holyoke, Mass., 627
Mount Holyoke College, 907–10, 927–8, 930, 940
Mount Vernon, Virginia, 958, 959
Mount Vernon (Westchester County, New York), 905
Mount Whittier (West Ossipee, NH), 17
Mountainview, NH, 10
Mowgli (Plath family cat), 11, 15–16, 31–2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 143; Serenade in D major, K. 320 (‘Posthorn’), 277n
Muir, Kenneth, 1308
Munich, Germany, 1121–2, 1132, 1145–6, 1158, 1160
Munro, Hector Hugh, see Saki
Murray, Isabel, see Henderson, Isabel Murray
Murray, Mr, 493
Musée de l’Orangerie, 1069, 1087, 1151, 1153
Musée du Louvre, 1063, 1069, 1087, 1104, 1151, 1153, 1157, 1161n
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 38, 46
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 634, 640, 717, 864, 867, 870, 873, 933, 1025
Music, see individual composers, performer, and song titles
Music Circus, 492
Musnik, Denise, 843n
Musset, Alfred de, ‘La Nuit de Mai’, 757
Myers, Anita, see Luery, Anita Myers
Myers, E. Lucas (Elvis Lucas) (‘Luke’), 1116n, 1150n, 1152, 1166, 1189, 1200, 1270, 1304
Myers, Robert Manson, 509n; From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: An Astounding and Wholly Unauthorized History of English Literature (quotation from), 509
Nancy Drew (fictional character), 38
Nahant, Mass., 762–3
Nalierie, Mary Honan, 922n
Nanjing Shi, China, 231n
Nantucket, Mass., 116
Naples, Italy, 1121
Nash, Benjamin Joliffe, 1318, 1322
Nash, Ogden, 439, 670, 831, 1256; ‘It Would Have Been Quicker to Walk’, 1256n; ‘Ms. Found Under a Serviette in Lovely Home’, 1256n; ‘The Strange Case of the Lucrative Compromise’, 1256n
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1256
Natick, Mass., 47n
Nation, The, 934, 936, 1230–1, 1234, 1238, 1253, 1267–8, 1278, 1297, 1303, 1316, 1323, 1326, 1329; SP’s work in, 934, 936, 948, 974, 1163; TH’s work in, 1253, 1329
National Gallery (UK), 963, 965, 1056
National Portrait Gallery (UK), 981, 988, 995
Native Americans, 139
Nauset Beach (Mass.), 477, 494, 496, 499, 502, 680, 704, 754, 769, 777, 782, 794, 902, 1236
Neal’s of California, 937
‘Nearer my God to thee’, 75
Neiditz, David H., 780n
Nelson, Ernest Edor, Jr, 391, 394, 396
Neopaganism, 669, 688, 1040
Netherlands, 98, 470, 472, 474, 480, 483, 891, 993, 1041, 1056
Neuburg, Nadine, see Doughty, Nadine Neuberg
Neupert, Hans-Joachim, SP’s correspondence with, 87–8, 110–12, 134–41, 143–4, 146–63, 67–9, 250–1, 330–1, 397–9, 433–4
New Canaan, Conn., 719–20
New Dance Group (New York), 761n
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 14, 587, 589
New Directions Publishing Corp., 587, 688
New England, 21, 148–9, 204, 275, 334, 398, 403, 599, 612, 658, 686, 892, 944, 1075, 1209, 1216, 1237, 1255, 1264
New England Journal of Medicine, 556n
New England Medical Center, 811n
New Faces (motion picture), 998n
New Hampshire (NH), 17n, 148n, 275, 571, 650
New Haven, Conn., 284, 291–2, 295, 298, 320, 335–6, 409, 566, 574, 580, 603–4, 613–14, 622, 713, 720, 747–8, 750, 752, 760–1, 876; East Rock Park, 574; George and Harry’s, 720; West Rock Ride State Park, 580, 583
New Jersey, 148, 275, 320, 402, 404, 834n
New Lines: An Anthology, 1311n
New Orleans, Louisiana, 919
New Orleans Poetry Journal, The, 919, 939, 942, 944; SP’s work in, 942, 944, 974, 1163
New Poems, 1956, 1311n
New Year, 157, 250–1, 254, 257, 271–2, 408, 551, 664, 1032, 1034–5, 1039, 1045, 1062, 1070–1, 1075, 1086, 1088, 1105, 1110, 1151, 1153
New York City (‘NY’, ‘NYC’, N.Y.C.’), 167, 172, 175, 262, 275, 300, 303, 306, 318, 366, 370, 390, 402, 404, 406, 418, 432, 442–4, 451, 454, 469, 483, 489, 495, 512, 523, 531, 571, 574, 580, 587, 590, 592, 597–8, 601, 603–5, 609–10, 610–11n, 612–13, 613n, 614–15, 617–18, 620–2, 624, 630, 631–32n, 633, 633n, 635–6, 636n, 638, 641–2, 644, 648, 679, 683, 688, 695, 699, 702, 705, 707, 713, 715–16, 716–19n, 720, 722, 728–9, 747, 750, 752, 795, 831, 836, 838, 841, 844–6, 847n, 849–50, 852, 863, 864–65n, 867, 869–70, 872–3, 899, 901–6, 906–7n, 914, 924–6, 929n, 931–3, 937, 944, 953, 956, 958, 960–1, 1016, 1025n
, 1039, 1042, 1047, 1054, 1056, 1118, 1144, 1150, 1201, 1253, 1269, 1289; Central Park, 591, 632, 634, 640, 865, 870, 873, 933; Central Park Zoo, 634–5, 640, 643; Grand Central Station, 523, 609, 630, 632, 719, 932; McAlpin Hotel, 407; Pennsylvania Station, 523, Times Square, 574, 963, 1066;
restaurants: Asti’s, 718; Café Saint Denis, 865, 867, 870, 873; Child’s, 632; Delmonico’s, 10; Drake Room, 631; Gloucester House, 610, 622; Ivy Room, 717; Le Gourmet, 865, 867, 870, 873; La Petite Maison, 610, 622; Le Veau D’or, 865, 870, 873; Oyster Bar, 32; Steuben’s Tavern, 750, 752, 850n; Three Crowns Restaurant, 931;
theatres: 4th Street Theatre, 864n, 870, 872; 46th Street Theatre, 847n; Alvin Theatre, 96n, 294n; Barrymore Theatre, 633n; Broadway Theatre, 907n; City Center, 610n, 622, 633, 637, 640; Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 931n; Greenwich Theatre, 718n; Guild Theatre, 864n; International Artists Studio, 633n; Longacre Theatre, 906n; Martin Beck Theatre, 610n; Morosco Theatre, 716n; Music Box Theatre, 717n; National Theatre, 611n; New Century Theatre, 404n; New York Ballet Theater, 425, 591; Phoenix Theater, 750n; Plaza Theatre, 931n; Radio City Music Hall, 931n
New York City Opera, 610n
New York Herald Tribune, 216, 632, 729
New York Presbyterian Hospital, 611
New York State, 926
New York Times, The, 175, 479, 882
New York Times Book Review, The, 507, 545, 586
New York Yankees (baseball team), 638, 641
New Yorker, The (‘NY’), 218, 420n, 476, 478, 525, 530, 532, 554, 567, 575, 577, 583, 587, 591, 602–5, 613–14, 627–8, 634–5, 643, 654, 838, 844, 857, 859, 862, 866, 899n, 917, 932, 942, 1005, 1011, 1075, 1083, 1088, 1096, 1099, 1112, 1178, 1187, 1192, 1196, 1200, 1234, 1244, 1252, 1254, 1256, 1268, 1270, 1276, 1286, 1291, 1297–8, 1304, 1305n, 1314, 1322–3, 1325
Newell, Beverly Louise Maurath, 368n, 469, 478, 481, 501, 634
Newell, Richard C. (‘Rit’), 368, 469, 478, 481, 634
Newman, Sylvia, see Rainer, Dachine
Newnham College, see University of Cambridge, buildings and colleges
Newnham College Report, 967, 1272n
Newport, Rhode Island, 647, 650, 766, 773–4, 775, 779, 807; ‘The Breakers’, 776; Hilltop, 776
Newsweek, 512
Newton, Mass., 98, 575
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 645, 649n, 656
Niagara Falls, New York, 1187
Nice, France, 1067, 1070–5, 1077, 1081, 1088–9, 1105, 1110, 1133, 1151, 1154
Nichols, Evelyn Sargent, 477
Nichols, Hall, 477n
Nichols, Malcolm Parrott, 238n
Nichols, Sargent, 477
Nichols, William Deming (‘Bill’), 237n; SP’s dating of, 237–9, 245, 249
Nicolai, Otto, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 104n