panic

“Paralytic”

Paris

Paris Review

Partisan Review

“Paula Brown’s Snowsuit”

Pawlikowski, Pawel

Penguin USA

perfectionism

Perloff, Marjorie

personality

Peyre, Henri

Philippian

physical appearance

“A Picture of Otto”

“A Pink Wool Knitted Dress”

Plath, Aurelia (mother)

as caretaker of children

as confidant

hatred of

Hughes, F., attack of

Jung and

letter to Sigmund

letters

morals of

self-sacrifice of

suicide and

ulcers of

visit of

Plath, Otto (father)

death of

“Electra on Azalea Path”

gravestone of

Nazism and

Ouija board communication with

politics of

as professor

Plath, Warren (brother)

Hughes, T., meeting of

letters

visit

wife of

Plato

Poe, Edgar Allen

“Poem”

poetry. See also writing

beginning of

confessional

early interest in

Hughes critique of

hurricane of September 21st, 1938 and

Plath, S., on

pleasure of

villanelle

Poetry

Point Shirley

“Point Shirley”

politics

in England

of Plath, O.

Sigmund on Hughes, T., and

Pope, Alexander

“Poppies in July”

Porter, Cole

Porter, Peter

The Portrait of a Lady (James)

positive thinking

posture

pregnancy

due date

effect of

Hughes, T., involvement with

labor/delivery

miscarriage

natural childbirth

second

third

The Prince and the Showgirl

prizes

Hughes, T., Harper’s prize

Mademoiselle

Seventeen

prose

Prouty, Olive Higgins

gifts from

Hughes, T., and

letters

as mentor

nervous breakdown of

scholarship from

visit to

The Public Burning (Coover)

Punic Wars

“Pursuit”

Quinn, Kay

“The Rabbit Catcher”

radio, writing for

Rainbow Press

Rakoczi, Basil Ivan

Random House

rape

readings

rebirth

reconciliation, plans for

“Reconsidering Sylvia Plath”

recorded voice

recovery

“Redcoats”

Redgrove, Peter

Reid, Christopher

rejections

from The Atlantic Monthly

of “Daddy”

of “Lady Lazarus”

from The New Yorker

from Yale Younger Poets

relationships. See also marriage

with Alvarez

with Cohen, E.

with Davison

with Hughes, T.

with Irwin

with Lameyer

with Norton, D.

romance

with Sassoon, R.

with Wober

religion, materialism and

Rich, Adrienne

River Cam

RMS Queen Elizabeth

Roche, Clarissa

memoirs

visit

Roche, Paul

Roethke, Theodore

Rogers, Sally

Rose, Jacqueline

Rosenstein, Harriet

Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath (Alexander)

Rowe, Susan O’Neill

Salinger, J. D.

Sanctuary (Faulkner)

Sassoon, Richard

on Hughes, T., marriage

letters

loss of

rape and

relationship with

sexuality of

Swiss girlfriend of

Sassoon, Siegfried

The Saturday Evening Post

Saturday’s Child (Morgan)

The Savage God: A Story of Suicide (Alvarez)

Saxton grant

scars

schedule

at Cambridge

writing

scholarship

schooling

Schulman, Grace

Schwartz, Merrill

Schwartz, Pepper

science

“The Second Destruction of Sylvia Plath”

self-doubt

self-wounds

The Seven Year Itch

Seventeen

The Sewanee Review

Sexton, Anne

sexuality

abuse

censorship and

dating

first kiss

guilt and

Martin on

rape

of Sassoon, R.

The Shadow

The Shadow

“The Shadow” (Plath)

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, Irwin

“Sheep in Fog”

“The Shot”

Shute, Nevil

sickness

Sigmund, Elizabeth Compton

on Hughes, T., and politics

Plath, A., letter to

testimony of

Silberman, Ravelle

The Silent Woman (Malcolm)

Sillitoe, Alan

Simon, Jody

Skouras, Plato

sleep

sleeping pills

Smith, Anne Mohegan

Smith Alumnae Quarterly

Smith College

alumni

course load at

Haven House room at

hiatus from

identity at

letters at

mood swings at

physical exams at

return to

scholarship to

teaching position at

worry about studies at

Smith Review

smoking

“Snow Blitz”

Somerset Maugham award

Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)

Sontag, Susan

sororities

Southwest Review

Spender, Stephen

Springfield Daily News

St. Botolph’s Review

Stafford, Jean

Starbuck, George

Steinberg, Peter K.

Steiner, Nancy Hunter

Stella Dallas (Prouty)

Stevenson, Adlai

Stevenson, Anne

Hughes, O., and

on Wevill

Stewart, Hamish

“Stings”

Strange Interlude (O’Neill)

“Stubbing Wharfe”

Studies in Classic American Literature (Lawrence)

style

Styron, William

Suez crisis

suicide

Akutowicz on

attempt, first

attraction of

Crockett on

discovery of

egoism and

father and

by gas

Hughes, T., on

isolation and

in letters

Plath, A., and

popularization of

preparation for

Sexton on

Thomas and

time of

of Wevill

of Woolf

suitors

summer camp

“And Summer Will Not Come Again”

sunbathing

“Sunday at the Mintons”

Superman

“Sweetie Pie and the Gutterman”

Swenson, May

Sylvia

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness (Butscher)

Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work (Owen)

“The Table”

Tate, Allen

teaching

creativity and

at Smith College

Socratic method

Teasdale, Sara

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (Feinstein)

temperament

The Tempest (Shakespeare)

“That Widow Mangada”

therapy. See recovery

The Thinking Body (Todd)

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, Trevor

“Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices”

Time

Todd, Mabel Elsworth

“Tongues of Stone”

Tonio Kröger (Mann)

“Totem”

Trafalgar Square

Tri-Quarterly

Truslow, Jane

“Tulips”

“Two of a Kind”

UMASS. See University of Massachusetts

University of Chicago

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts (UMASS)

Uroff, Margaret

Van Dyne, Susan R.

“Verbal Calisthenics”

“Veronica Lake”

Viking Penguin

villanelle

violence, Hughes, T., and

“Visions of Sylvia Plath”

“Visit”

Wagner, Erica

Wagner-Martin, Linda

Wain, John

war. See also specific types

wedding. See marriage

Weeks, Edward

Weissbort, Daniel

Wellesley High School

Wells, H. G.

Welty, Eudora

Wesker, Arnold

West, Rebecca

Wevill, Assia

abortion of

in biographies of Plath, S.

in “Dreamers”

effect of Plath, S., fame on