by Sylvia Plath
Powell, Ralph Dewey, Jr (‘Ted’), 206
Powley, Betsy, see Wallingford, Betsy Powley
Powley family, 75, 273
Pratson, Patricia O’Neil (‘Pat’, ‘Patsy’), 179, 181, 185–6, 199, 206–7, 210, 227, 235, 237, 252, 263, 271, 276–7, 286, 290, 334, 373, 406, 419, 434, 438, 525, 647, 736, 761, 768, 798, 815, 817, 845, 847, 849, 877, 905, 943, 946, 1006, 1012, 1016, 1041, 1052, 1189, 1197, 1206, 1234, 1250, 1299; SP’s correspondence with, 1201–3
Pregnanc, childbirth, children, SP’s views on, 680, 745–6, 1043
Press, Janet Crompton, 1311n, 1312
Press, John, 1311–12; The Chequer’d Shade: Reflections on Obscurity in Poetry, 1311n; ‘Farewell’, 1311n; The Fire and the Fountain, 1311n; Uncertainties, and Other Poems, 1311n; untitled review, 1311n
Preston, Kathleen, see Knight, Kathleen Preston
Primus, Pearl, 277
Princeton Tiger, The, 300n, 319
Princeton Tower Club, 520, 522
Princeton University, 378, 387–91, 421, 424, 430, 432, 435–6, 464, 514, 516–20, 522–3, 632, 678, 887; chapel of, 519;
library of, 519
Prior, Camille, 987
‘Prisoner of Love’, 53
Prize Winning Entries of the Creative Writing Contests of the English Department, 705n
Proust, Marcel, 652; Swann’s Way, 785 Prouty, Olive Higgins, 212, 214, 218, 222, 236, 241, 285, 305, 504, 533, 634–5, 646–7, 656, 684, 720, 782, 813, 843, 845, 847, 849, 876, 905, 921, 929, 940–4, 966, 998n, 1016, 1046n, 1051n, 1052, 1067, 1077, 1082, 1084, 1102–3, 1106–7, 1115, 1123, 1178, 1190, 1192, 1197, 1204–5, 1211, 1235, 1247, 1250, 1259, 1261, 1288–9, 1324, 1327; SP’s correspondence with, 232–5, 999–1001, 1046–1051; Stella Dallas, 212, 646; Taupe (dog), 646
Provincetown, Mass., 763
Psychiatry, 1098
Public Garden (Boston), 941n
Pulling, David, 936n
Pulling, Grace E., 936–7
Pulling, Lynda, 936n
Pulling, Richard A., 936n
Punch, 917
Purkayastha, Lotika, see Varadarajan, Lotika Purkayastha
Purmort, Hazel (‘Aunt Hazel’), 207, 517, 970, 1079
Pygmalion (motion picture), 725, 728, 730, 731
Quartet (motion picture), 465
Queeg, Captain (fictional character: Wouk), 503, 513, 646
Queen Elizabeth, RMS, 930, 933, 944, 956, 963, 965, 1054, 1255, 1272
Queen Is Crowned, A (motion picture), 656 Queen’s Park Estate (London), 964
Quinn, Kathleen, see Camin, Kathleen Quinn
Racine, Jean, 975, 981, 1045, 1092, 1116, 1122, 1132–3, 1138, 1158, 1250; Phèdre, 1129, 1133, 1158, 1250
Rackham, Arthur, 74, 961, 1194, 1196
Radcliffe College, 449, 657, 869, 872, 874–7, 888, 893–4, 977, 1237, 1247
Radio broadcasting, United States, 56, 67n, 82, 83n, 135, 159, 170, 216, 228, 411n
Radio City Music Hall (New York), 96, 931n
Rae, Mary Stuart, 503, 513
Rafferty, Janet Ellen Wagner, 641n
Rago, Henry, 1257
Raguse, Mabel R., 893
Raine, Kathleen, 1268, 1274, 1311, 1330
Rainer, Dachine, 926
Rains, Claude, 669, 831
Rákóczi, Basil Ivan, 1306n; The Painted Caravan, 1306
Rama Rau, Santha, 636, 639
Ramrath, Arden Tapley, 108
Rand, Christopher, 1270n; ‘Letter from Jaipur’, 1270
Randall, Helen Whitcomb, 206n, 374n, 441
Rank, J. Arthur, 1120, 1203, 1245
Rank, Otto, 826; ‘Der Doppelgänger’, 817n
Ransom, John Crowe, 1271, 1304, 1311; ‘Winter Remembered’, 1271n
Raphael, 958
Rashomon (motion picture), 516–17
Rattigan, Terence, Separate Tables, 960, 964
Rattray, David, 907n
Rauscher, Gerhard, 691–2, 696, 703
Ravel, Maurice, Boléro, 931n
Ray Brook State Tuberculosis Hospital (Ray Brook, New York), 521, 544, 565, 570, 582, 618, 655
Raymond family, 65n
Rea, Betty, 1198n
Reader’s Digest, 942, 944, 952
Red Lion Hotel (Cambridge, UK), 1189n
Redgrove, Peter, 1248n, 1265n, 1301, 1309
Redpath, Robert Theodore Holmes, 1092, 1124
Reeve, Anthony Wallace Alan, 1285
Refugees, Political, 164, 168, 234, 414, 681, 1225
Regent Street (London), 991n, 1008n, 1060, 1062
Regent’s Park (London), 959, 962
Reid, Alastair, 626
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 204, 218, 958
Remington, Frederic, 43n
Remondelli, Amelia, see Gardner, Amelia Remondelli
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (‘R.P.I.’), 226, 272
Rêves à vendre (motion picture), 1157n
Revivals, religious, 143
Reynal & Hitchcock, 1329
Rhine River, 112, 158
Rhode Island, 355n, 1085
Rice, William Brooks (‘Bill’), 427, 842, 1206, 1247, 1289
Rich, Adrienne (‘ACR’), 942, 1256; ‘At the Jewish New Year’, 1256n; A Change of World, 942n
Richard III (motion picture), 1070
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 967; ‘The Dimensions of Reading Poetry’, 699, 701, 702, 706
Rie, Lucie, 974–5
Riedeman, Robert George (‘Bob’), 152n, 159, 161, 181, 186–7, 189, 193, 212–13, 226, 272, 280, 834, 848; SP’s dating of, 152, 226–7
Rififi (motion picture), 960
Riley, James Whitcomb, 43n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1141, 1200; Der ausgewählten Gedichte erster Teil, 843; ‘Ein Prophet’, 843, 845, 846, 852
Rimbaud, Arthur, 737, 742, 909
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, The Snow Maiden, 104n
Rio Escondido (motion picture), 762
Rita, 270, 279, 297
Riviera, French, 601, 663, 697, 937, 981, 1066–7, 1071–2, 1105, 1110, 1131, 1133, 1151, 1154, 1223–4, 1252
Roberts, David, Rev., 426n
Roberts, Margaret, 967n, 972, 982, 986, 1085, 1099, 1179, 1296
Roberts, Ruby Altizer, 939n, 942n
Robin, Christopher, 291, 767
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, ‘Miniver Cheevy’, 599
Robinson, Frances Reed, 1247n
Robinson, Henry Morton, 780n
Rock, Mr and Mrs, 488
Rockefeller Center, 848, 850, 906
Rockettes (dance company), 931n
Rodger, Sarah-Elizabeth, 261, 719–20, 722, 929, 1084
Rodgers, Richard, 473, 476
Roen, Ann Doney, 816n
Roethke, Theodore, 1256; ‘The Small’, 1256n; ‘They Sing’, 1256n
Rogers, Francis Millet, 839, 875–7, 880, 888
Rogers, Sally, 666n; SP’s correspondence with, 666–8
Roget, Peter Mark, 545; Thesaurus, 772, 815, 859, 882
Rohmann, Paul H., ‘The Full, Bright Scholar’, 932
Rolland, Romain, 1288; Beethoven the Creator, 1288
Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff, 1228–9; Joy of Cooking, 775, 1178, 1190, 1195, 1220
Romberg, Sigmund, 82; Evening with Romberg, 82n; Maytime, 83n; The New Moon, 82n; ‘Stout-Hearted Men’, 82n; ‘Wanting You’, 82; ‘When I Grow Too Old to Dream’, 83n; ‘Will You Remember (Sweetheart)?’, 83n
Rome, Italy, 187, 201, 1080, 1121, 1140, 1145, 1147, 1151–2, 1154–5, 1158–60, 1170, 1230, 1241, 1252, 1314, 1316; Forum, 1160
Romig, Joan Dutton, 375n
Ronsard, Pierre de, 975, 1130
Roosevelt College (Chicago), 270, 279
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 367
Roosevelt Hotel (New York), 631
Rose Laird, 105
Röseler, Robert O. (Robert Oswald), German in Review, 1260n
Rosenberg, Janet Salter, 443, 459, 512, 718–19, 899
Rosenthal, Jon K., 834, 848, 1013; SP’s correspondence with, 840–2, 849–51, 10
54–6, 1110
Ross, David (director), 864n
Ross, David, 1115, 1116n
Rossetti, Christina, 406
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 406
Rossini, Gioacchino, 640
Rotary Club, 444, 486
Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1209, 1224, 1242
Rouault, Georges, 441; The Old King, 1062n
Rousseau, Henri, 1069; The Sleeping Gypsy, 1011
Ruder, Leonard, 383n
Rue de la Paix (Paris), 1068
Rugby, 903
Russell, Helen Louise, 834n, 862
Russell Square (London), 1306n
Russia, 136, 168, 171–2, 273, 1167, 1176, 1179
Rutgers University, 949, 952
Ryser, Carol Pierson, 217, 259, 279–80, 317, 383, 410, 418, 421, 423, 426, 440, 517, 525, 559, 615, 623, 781, 852, 1150, 1154
Sacre-Cœur de Montmartre (basilica: Paris), 1066, 1068, 1087, 1104, 1153, 1157–8, 1232
Safford, Nicholas Heath, 145
Sail Loft, 481
Saint Botolph’s Review, 1115, 1120, 1152n, 1252, 1319n; TH’s work in, 1203
St George-the-Martyr (London), 1206n, 1207
St Martin-in-the-Fields (London), 963
Saint Regis Hotel (New York), 633, 635, 639
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 872; The Little Prince, 780, 1315
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 43n
Sainte-Chapelle (Paris), 1063n, 1066, 1069, 1087, 1097, 1104, 1232
Saintonge, Constance, 909n
Saki, 1254
Salad Days, 1060, 1070
Salem, Mass., 610
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 613, 1314; The Catcher in the Rye, 613, 1187; Nine Stories, 798n
Salisbury, Lynne Trowbridge, 810, 911
Salter, Agnes O’Shea, 718n
Salter, Elizabeth, 1287n, 1295
Salter, George, 718n
Salter, Janet, see Rosenberg, Janet Salter
Salvadori, Massimo, 426n
Salzburg, Austria, 158
Samson, George, 396n
Samson, Rebecca M., 94n; School Girl Allies, 94
Sandler, Allan Irwin, 442n
Santospago, Florence, 151n
Saranac, New York, 533, 543, 616
Sargent, John Singer, 377n; El Jaleo (The Dancer), 377n
Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt (exhibition), 717
Sarton, May, 629n, 1175, 1177, 1181
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1286; Existentialism and Humanism, 1286n
Sassoon, Richard Laurence, 727n, 732–4, 737, 742–4, 747, 750, 752, 756n, 820, 837–8, 850, 852, 865, 867, 914, 923, 933, 937, 951, 969, 978, 1008, 1015–16, 1019, 1030, 1033, 1039–40, 1041, 1053, 1067–70, 1083–4, 1090, 1093, 1102, 1104–5, 1110, 1113, 1119, 1130–2, 1134–5, 1141, 1150, 1153, 1155, 1158, 1160, 1184–5; SP’s correspondence with, 734, 1017–19, 1036–7, 1077–9, 1091, 1116–18, 1125–30, 1163–4
Sassoon, Siegfried, 732, 737, 742
Saturday Evening Post, The, 876, 936
Saturday Review of Literature (‘SRL’), 386, 439, 512, 669, 863
Saunders, Sheila, 678
Savin Rock (West Haven, Conn.), 336
Saxton Fellowship, see Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Fellowship
Sayles, Barry, 972n
Scandinavia, 1038, 1056, 1057
Scarlatti, Domenico, 982, 993, 1014, 1018, 1026, 1040, 1044, 1049, 1058
Scarlett, Roger, 403n; Back Bay Murders, 403n; Beacon Hill Murders, 403n; Cat’s Paw, 403n; In the First Degree, 403n; Murder Among the Angells, 403n
Scarr, Josephine, 1167n, 1172n, 1175, 1178n; ‘“Varsity” Goes to Meet B & K and has Vodka and Caviar’ (quotation from), 1178n
Schaffner, James Nathan (‘Jim’), 258, 317, 319, 349, 352–3, 372
Schenk, Joseph M., 171n
Schiller, Friedrich, 780, 810; The Robbers, 1013n
Schmidt, Katrina, 426n
Schnieders, Marie, 174, 373, 438, 540–2, 546, 586
Schober, Aurelia Greenwood (‘Grammy’, SP’s maternal grandmother), 3n, 4–6, 15, 17, 19, 26, 29, 55–6, 60–1, 66, 68, 70, 72–4, 81, 83, 91, 106, 114, 119, 127, 137, 228, 252, 340, 356, 362, 365, 427, 442, 461, 480–1, 497, 503, 540, 590, 613, 616, 619, 625–6, 656, 714, 766–7, 774, 812, 856, 877, 898, 914, 922, 943, 970, 996, 1032, 1054, 1077, 1089, 1096, 1098, 1103, 1114, 1135, 1144, 1147–8, 1158–9, 1164, 1176, 1181, 1202, 1305; cancer of, 1089, 1094–5, 1097, 1104, 1106, 1108, 1153, 1163; death of, 1184, 1186; SP’s correspondence with, 28, 51, 58–9, 67–8, 1034–5, 1084–6, 1097, 1111
Schober, Frank (‘Grampy’, SP’s maternal grandfather), 3n, 4, 26, 41n, 55, 60–1, 66, 68, 70, 72–4, 114, 119, 127, 228–9, 282, 362, 367, 448, 454, 461, 480–1, 524, 625–6, 656, 714, 766–7, 774, 799, 898, 914, 922, 943, 970, 996, 1030, 1032, 1053–4, 1097–8, 1103, 1111, 1114, 1149, 1159, 1171–2, 1174, 1181, 1186, 1197, 1301; SP’s correspondence with, 28, 42–3, 58–9, 67–8, 1034–5, 1084–6
Schober, Frank Richard (‘Frankie’, SP’s uncle), 3, 20, 48, 52, 55, 58, 60, 524, 774, 878–9, 903–5, 1095, 1171–2, 1174, 1207, 1212, 1234, 1244
Schober, Louise Bowman (SP’s aunt), 20, 48, 55, 58, 60, 688, 904, 1095
Schoenberg, Arnold, 735
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1317; ‘On Women’, 1317
Schotte, Oscar, 678–9, 696
Schubert, Franz, ‘Der Atlas’, 993n; ‘Der Doppelgänger’, 993n; ‘Ihr Bild’, 993n; ‘Meer, Am’, 993n; ‘Die Stadt’, 993n
Schumann, Robert, ‘Merry Farmer’, 7
Schwartz, Delmore, 779; Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems, 727
Schweitzer, Albert, Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, 374
Scollay Square (Boston), 752
Scotch Symphony (choreographic work), 633n, 637, 640
Scott, Ira O., 828, 837, 1040
Scott, Kate Francis, 175; A College Course in Hygiene, 175n
Scott, Zachary, 553
Segovia, Andrés, 724, 728
Seine River (France), 1063–7, 1069, 1087, 1144, 1153, 1157–8, 1209, 1232, 1240
Sellman, Cinthia, 10
‘September Song’, 869
Sermons, ‘The Rod of the Almond Tree’, 126
Seventeen (‘17’), 95, 163–4, 166, 179, 187, 189, 191, 198, 200, 202, 234, 261, 271, 282, 313–14, 355, 410 414, 425, 431, 436, 450, 456–7, 511, 514, 522, 548, 575, 584, 586, 591, 599, 609, 866, 877, 879, 1133, 1229, 1260; SP’s submissions to, 179, 384; SP’s work in, 163–4, 166, 214, 217, 259, 311, 490, 493, 536, 599, 660, 683, 896, 1133
Sex, 688, 727, 745
Shaber, David, 1247n
Shadow, The (radio programme), 83n
Shadow of a Doubt (motion picture), 718
Shahn, Ben, 597, 601
Shakespeare, Margaret Pratt, 173, 207–8, 222, 244, 267, 304, 409, 411, 503
Shakespeare, William, 108, 111, 655, 753, 976, 996, 1000, 1004–5, 1042, 1107, 1119n, 1123, 1141, 1152, 1165–7, 1174, 1197, 1203, 1234, 1236, 1281; Antony and Cleopatra, 1302; As You Like It, 983, 988, 995; Hamlet, 1302 (quotation from), 650; History of King Henry IV, 833, 843; History of King Henry IV, Part 1, 940n, 941n, 942, 997; History of King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, 872, 938n; Julius Caesar, 983n; King Lear, 1004, 1142, 1152; King Richard the Second, 826; King Richard the Third, 826; The Life of King Henry the Fifth, 843; Macbeth, 751, 756n, 1024; The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1119, 1123; Othello, 899, 948; The Tempest, 997; Troilus and Cressida, 1026, 1123, 1141, 1150, 1152
Shakin, Carl M., 960, 963, 965
‘Shaping of Foundations, The’, 411n; see also Smith College, Religious Association
Shapiro, Karl, 960; SP’s correspondence with, 1163
Shapiro, Norman R. (‘Norm’), 724, 728, 736, 739, 749, 751, 753–4, 782
Sharon, Conn., 376
Sharon Inn, 376
Shaw, George Bernard, 633n, 785; Four Plays, 727n; Misalliance, 633; Pygmalion, 728
Shaw, Irwin, 613
Shawber, Anne, 635
‘Sh-Boom’ (quotation from), 787
Shea, Robert Smith, 889, 892,
894–5
Shears, Nancy Teed (‘Teedie’), 173n, 259, 279–80, 327, 442n, 443
Sheets, Madeline Redmond, 936
Sheets, Redmond, 104n
Sheldon, William Herbert, Psychology and the Promethean Will, 856n
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 388, 479
Shephardson, Nadine, 910
Shepherd, Guy, 972n
Sherk, Kenneth Wayne, 504n, 505, 507, 541, 546, 607
Shire, E. S., 1020
Short, Ted, 86n
Shorthand, 24
Shriner, Herb, 633, 637, 639; Two for the Money, 633n, 639
Sibelius, Jean, King Christian, 104n
Siberia (Russia), 840, 1095
Sidamon-Eristoff, Anne Tracy, 412n, 421
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine (‘Connie’), 378–81, 384, 386–9, 391–2, 402, 404, 412; SP’s correspondence with, 389–90, 403–4, 407, 420–1, 429–30; SP’s dating of, 407, 430
Sidamon-Eristoff, Simon, 378n
Siggs, L. H. (Lawrence Hector), ‘No, he doesn’t talk’, 917
Simenon, Georges, 1068n, 1104
Simon, Sonya Zelinkoff, 280
Sinatra, Frank, 53, 55, 167, 1120
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle, 331
Siipola, Elsa Margareeta, 598n
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1248
Sisson, Lois Winslow, see Ames, Lois Sisson
Sistine Chapel (Vatican City), 1160
Sitwell, Edith, 319, 321, 386, 589, 920, 1010, 1259; The Canticle of the Rose: Poems 1917–1949, 303n, 319, 321; Façade: An Entertainment, 682; ‘Four in the Morning’ (quotation from), 682; ‘Fox Trot (Old Sir Faulk)’ (quotation from), 589; ‘The Wind’s Bastinado’ (quotation from), 589
Six American Painters, 383n
Skouras, Plato Alexander, 378
Skouras, Spyros Panagiotis, 378n
Sladdin, Evelyn, 967n
Sladen, Jocelyn Arundel, 843n
Slakvenska, Mia, 476n
‘Sleeping Beauty, The’, 62, 1028
Slosmann, Mark von, 642n
Slye, Susan, see Taylor, Susan Slye
Smith, Alison Vera, 437, 442–5, 454, 529, 531, 848, 849, 1052
Smith, Anthony Thomas, 986
Smith, Elizabeth Hugus, 439
Smith, Joan Elizabeth, 773, 797, 803
Smith, John, 1198n
Smith, June, 88–90, 92–4, 96
Smith, Margarita G. (‘Rita’), 447n, 553, 631
Smith, William Jay, 1278; Laughing Time, 1278
Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 285, 929, 1247
Smith Club of Wellesley, Mass., 932
Smith College, 167, 172, 175, 180, 197, 200, 205, 212–13, 217, 224, 241, 244, 250, 254, 284n, 287–8, 296–7, 299, 326– 7, 372, 376–7, 389–90, 397, 398, 414, 418, 431, 439, 449, 457, 459, 463, 471, 478, 482, 496, 500, 502, 551, 553–4, 558, 563–4, 569, 575, 580, 583, 589, 597, 599, 602, 607–8, 612, 615, 617, 619–20, 625, 629n, 631–2, 643–4, 647, 649n, 651n, 652–4, 656, 664, 666–8, 873, 973, 977, 994, 1038, 1102, 1115, 1123, 1143, 1149–50, 1179, 1194, 1201, 1237, 1246–7, 1249, 1251, 1260, 1310;