Shortly before this she had watched British critic I. A. Richards
on tv explicating the form of the sonnet. She thought, Well, I could do that. She was soon revelling in Dr Orne
's approval...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Sexton
Her mother, Mary Gray Staples Harvey
, like her father, was from a fairly wealthy family. Mary Gray Staples was educated at Wellesley College
and entertained ambitions for a literary career, but she left school...