In the case of George Starbuck
a love-affair was succeeded by a longer-lived friendship. In the case of James Wright
the friendship and the love-affair developed together, but ended with Wright withdrawing.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
117-19, 128-33, 148-9
Health
Anne Sexton
She was hospitalized again in October 1963 after cutting short her scholarship year in Europe. Soon after this Martin Orne left Boston, and AS
, after corresponding with and leaning towards a psychiatrist called Anne Wilder
Health
Anne Sexton
By May 1969 AS
discontinued her therapy with Dr Zweizung
(who had, somewhat unprofessionally, allowed himself to be seduced by her), and switched to the care of Dr Constance Chase
. In August 1970 she...
Textual Production
Anne Sexton
Having shaped Tell Me Your Answer True while she was finishing her therapy with Dr. Orne
, AS
retitled it Mercy Street and revised it in 1969 while she was finishing her therapy with Dr Zweizung
