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Bibliography
Northouse, Cameron, and Thomas P. Walsh. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: A Reference Guide. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1974, 143 p.
Annotated checklist of publications about Sexton and her work, dated but valuable.
Biographies
Middlebrook, Diane. Anne Sexton: A Biography. London: Vintage, 1992, 528 p.
Reconstructs Sexton's life and interprets her works based on audiotapes of the poet's psychotherapy sessions, which has prompted controversy in some quarters.
Sexton, Linda Gray. Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1994, 307 p.
Biography of Sexton by her daughter.
Criticism
Furst, Arthur, and Linda Gray Sexton. Anne Sexton: The Last Summer, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, 128 p.
Contains photographs taken during the summer before Sexton's suicide and includes previously unpublished letters and early drafts of poems.
George, Diana Hume. "How We Danced: Anne Sexton on Fathers and Daughters." Women's Studies 12, no. 2 (1986): 179-202.
Traces the...
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