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Tables of Contents for Bitter Fame
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE TO THE MARINER EDITION
ix
4
PREFACE
xiii
1 · The Girl Who Wanted to Be God, 1932-1949
1
16
2 · A Smith Girl, 1950-1952
17
17
3 · The City of Spare Parts, 1952-1955
34
25
4 · Pursuit, 1955-1956
59
26
5 · Fire and Flower, 1956-1957
85
24
6 · Disquieting Muses, 1957-1958
109
24
7 · Electra on Azalea Path, 1958-1959
133
26
8 · Poem for a Birthday, 1959
159
16
9 · Ariel in the Tree, 1959-1960
175
26
10 · Warnings, 1960-1961
201
20
11 · The Stigma of Selfhood, 1961-1962
221
40
12 · Getting There, 1962-1963
261
39
EPILOGUE
300
7
APPENDIX I · Ah, Youth...: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath at Cambridge and After,
307
15
Lucas Myers
APPENDIX II · Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath
322
26
Dido Merwin
APPENDIX III · A Memoir of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on a Visit to the West of Ireland in 1962
348
11
Richard Murphy
SOURCES AND NOTES
359
28
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
387
2
INDEX
389
Illustrations follow p. 174