American Isis (45 page)

“very nice”: BL.

it “became increasingly difficult”: Holder.

“Notes Toward a Biography”: reprinted in Newman.

“I am so sick”: Smith.

“Plath or her publisher”: email from Frances McCullough to Beth Alvarez, 8/2/12, forwarded to me.

“Ted told me”: Maryland.

“Miss Rosenstein seems”: ECS.

Poor Clare Court: interview with Elizabeth Compton Sigmund.

“so insensitive that”: quoted in Malcolm.

“English authors”: SPWW.

“If you wrote”: Elizabeth Compton to EB, 24/1/74.

Butscher's request for an interview: “In Search of Sylvia,” SPWW.

“For me”: Smith.

“Olwyn, of course”: Emory.

the “mob”: THL does not include the entire correspondence between AP, TH, and Frances McCullough, but it is available at Emory and at Maryland, College Park.

Reviews of
Letters Home:
SPCH.

“You reify”: 4/2/75, EBP.

“If it was just”: 11/2/75, EBP.

“There was a very real chance”: 30/4/91, Maryland.

“the effect of”: Emory.

“no mention of Assia”: ECS.

“a Soviet view of history”: interview with A. Alvarez.

“rampant” feminism: Emory.

“spilling the beans”: TH to Victor Kovner, the attorney defending him in the Jane Anderson lawsuit, Emory.

“central figure”: Emory.

“I have had the work in question”: Emory.

“hot copy”: BL.

“bad as well as the good”: 26/8/92, BL.

Eschewing much biographical speculation: Emory.

“It's so deterministic”: Emory.

“excessively vituperative”: Bayley.

“Sylvia suicide doll”: Frieda's comments are quoted in Jamie Wilson, “Frieda Hughes Attacks BBC for Film on Plath,”
Guardian,
3/2/03.

In “Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath's Son, Commits Suicide,”
Huffington Post,
23/3/09, Frieda is quoted as saying her brother had been depressed.

“wildly inaccurate”: ECS.

 

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INDEX

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Aaron, Daniel

Abels, Cyrilly

“Above the Oxbow”

Akutowicz, Edwin

Aldermaston marchers

Alexander, Paul

“All the Dead Dears”

Alliston, Susan

Allyson, June

Alvarez, Al

Hughes, T., and

on Hughes, O.

letters

meeting of

on Plath, S.

relationship with

reviews of

visit of

Amateur Dramatic Club

ambition

America

“America! America!”

“America the Beautiful”

American Book Review

American Poetry Review

Americanism

Ames, Lois

Anderson, Jane

“Angst and Animism in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath”

appendicitis

Apuleius

Arendt, Hannah

“Ariel”

Ariel
(Plath, S.)

Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters
(Wagner)

Arnold, Matthew

“Arraignment”

“The Arrival of the Bee Box”

The Art of Loving
(Fromm)

Arvin, Newton

astrology

The Atlantic Monthly

atomic bomb

Auden, W. H.

Augustine, St.

Axelrod, Steven Gould

babysitting jobs

Badia, Janet

“Balloons”

Barbizon Hotel

Bartholomew Fair

“Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy
The Seafarer”

Bayley, Sally

BBC

“The Beach”

Beales, Joan

“The Bear”

Becker, Gerry

Becker, Jillian

“The Bee God”

beekeeping

behavior

The Bell Jar
(movie)

The Bell Jar
(Plath, S.)

copyrights of

Davison on

dedication of

first draft of

influences on

interpretation of

McCullough on

publication of

reviews of

Belmont Hotel

Benny, Jack

Beuscher, Ruth

biking

biographers

Hughes, T., and

birth

Birthday Letters
(Hughes, T.)

censorship of

personas in

response to

“A Birthday Present”

Bitter Fame
(Stevenson)

“Bitter Strawberries”

“Black Coat”

Black Lamb and Gray Falcon
(West)

“Blackberrying”

The Blackboard Jungle

Blackwell, Betsy Talbot

Blackwell, Constance

Blake, William

“The Blue Flannel Suit”

Boddy, Michael

The Bookseller

Boston

Boston Herald

Boston University

Bourjaily, Vance

Bowen, Elizabeth

Bowles, Sally

Bradford

Brans, Jo

Brown, Marcia

letters

visit

Buck, David

Buckley, Maureen

Buckley, William F., Jr.

Bulganin, Nicolai

bullfighting

Bumblebees and Their Ways
(Plath, O.)