Linda gray sexton abuse of process

This past October 4 marked the 20th anniversary of poet Anne Sexton's suicide.

Two decades later, her extraordinary life and death still loom large, haunting those who knew her personally and intriguing those who only know her through her work.

My mother was physically abusive, so there was a lot of turmoil in that environment—a lot of rejection and physical abuse, which was obviously a really hard.

My mother was physically abusive, so there was a lot of turmoil in that environment—a lot of rejection and physical abuse, which was obviously a really hard.

This feeling of dismissal was only punctuated by the indifference and/or actual abuse Gray Sexton met in her different foster homes.

During the period when she was sexually abusing me, she was writing a play about a daughter's sexual abuse — by both a father and a loving aunt.

In these pages, Ms. Sexton grapples not only with her mother's sexual and emotional abuse of her, but also with the psychological implications.

Sexton's work.

In a courageous attempt to confront the burden of her mother's legacy and appease her own demons, author Linda Gray Sexton '75 has released her own memoirs, Searching for Mercy Street. Though Gray Sexton does not hesitate to point the proverbial finger at her mother, blaming her for a life out of a control, her cathartic opus is far from a "Mommie Dearest" for the literary set.

Beneath the pile of dirty laundry lies a tale of unbounded resilience, a lesson in true independence.

Memoirs written by a relative or a friend of a celebrity are inherently flawed in that they are written on the pretense that the author's life history is as compelling as the celebrity's.

This is usually never the case. An inevitable tension arises