Книга: May Sarton «May Sarton Selected Letters 1955 1995»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" May Sarton Selected Letters 1955 1995 ISBN:9780393051117 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2002)
ISBN: 9780393051117 |
May Sarton
May Sarton | |
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Born | Eleanore Marie Sarton May 3, 1912 Wondelgem, Belgium |
Died | July 16, 1995 | (aged 83)
Nationality | Belgium United States |
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
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Biography
Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium (today a part of the city of Ghent). Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. In 1915, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started theatre lessons in her late teens.
In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive (1988) is about their relationship.[1] In her memoir At Seventy, she reflected on how her Unitarian Universalist upbringing shaped her.[2]
Sarton later moved to York, Maine. She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995. She is buried in Nelson, New Hampshire.[3]
Works and themes
Despite the quality of some of her many novels and poems, May Sarton's best and most enduring work probably lies in her journals and memoirs, particularly Plant Dreaming Deep (about her early years at Nelson, ca. 1958-68), Journal of a Solitude (1972-1973, often considered her best), The House by the Sea (1974-1976), Recovering (1978-1979) and At Seventy (1982-1983). In these fragile, rambling and honest accounts of her solitary life, she deals with such issues as ageing, isolation, solitude, friendship, love and relationships, lesbianism, self-doubt, success and failure, envy, gratitude for life's simple pleasures, love of nature (particularly of flowers), spirituality and, importantly, the constant struggles of a creative life. Sarton's later journals are not of the same quality, as she endeavoured to keep writing through ill health and often with the help of a tape recorder.
May Sarton often emphasized in her journals that she didn't see herself as a "lesbian" writer, but wanted to touch on what is universally human about love in all its manifestations. When publishing her novel Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing in 1965, she feared that writing openly about lesbianism would lead to a diminution of the previously established value of her work. "The fear of homosexuality is so great that it took courage to write Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing," she wrote in Journal of a Solitude, "to write a novel about a woman homosexual who is not a sex maniac, a drunkard, a drug-taker, or in any way repulsive, to portray a homosexual who is neither pitiable nor disgusting, without sentimentality ..." (Journal of a Solitude, 1973, pp. 90-91).
Margot Peters' controversial biography (1998) revealed May Sarton as a complex human being who often struggled in her interpersonal relationships.
Bibliography
Poetry books
Nonfiction
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Novels
Children's books
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References
- ^ Pobo, Kenneth (2002). "Sarton, May". Chicago. Chicago: glbtq, Inc.. http://www.glbtq.com/literature/sarton_m.html. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
- ^ "May Sarton". Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/maysarton.html.
- ^ "May Sarton". Poets.org. Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/653. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
External links
- Karen Saum (Fall 1983). "May Sarton, The Art of Poetry No. 32". The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3040/the-art-of-poetry-no-32-may-sarton.
- "May Sarton". http://www.purpleglitter.com/may_sarton/. - Shrine by Purple Glitter
- "May Sarton: A Poet's Life". University of Pennsylvania. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sarton/blouin-biography.html.
- "About May Sarton". Good Ale Hill Press. http://goodalehillpress.com/aboutmaysarton.html.
- "May Sarton". http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1222. May Sarton at Find A Grave
- 1912 births
- 1995 deaths
- Flemish people
- American people of Belgian descent
- Lesbian writers
- American poets
- Deaths from breast cancer
- American Unitarian Universalists
- Belgian women writers
- American women writers
- LGBT writers from the United States
- People from York, Maine
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