Anne Harvey
married Alfred Muller Sexton II
(known as Kayo), who planned to be a doctor and had so far spent one year at college. They eloped and drove from Massachusetts to Sunbury, North Carolina...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Sexton
AS
bore her elder daughter, Linda Gray Sexton
, in Boston while her husband
was on his way home from the Korean War.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Sexton
By early 1973 AS
had decided to divorce Kayo
. The marriage had deteriorated: he was withdrawn and controlling, convinced that he was the only bulwark for the family against the ravages of Anne's illness...
Textual Production
Anne Sexton
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...
Violence
Anne Sexton
As writing poetry and mixing with poets began to take up more of Sexton's life, her husband, Kayo
, came to hate it more and more. Their rows about poetry regularly ended in his hitting...
