Sexton's father, Ralph Churchill Harvey
, was an upper-middle-class . . . . self-confident, handsome young businessman. He was close to opening his own wool business at the time of Anne's birth, and it quickly...
Literary responses
Anne Sexton
By appearing in print AS
impressed and delighted her father
. He would buy multiple copies of the newspaper (as many as fifty) and send them to all his friends and customers.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Sexton
She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
