“Feminist Criticism in Wilderness – Elaine Showalter” to the poem “Crossing the Atlantic by Anne Sexton”

“Feminist Criticism in Wilderness – Elaine Showalter” to the poem “Crossing the Atlantic by Anne Sexton” Introduction Annie grey was born in Newton in 1928. She attended Garland Junior College for one year and married Alfred Mullar Sexton – II. At the age of 19 she enrolled in a Modeling course at the Hart agency. In 1953 she gave birth to a daughter and she was diagnosed with Postpartum depression suffered her first mental breakdown and was admitted to Westwood lodge a neuropsychiatric hospital. In 1955 she gave the birth of her second daughter attempted suicide she was encouraged by her doctor to pursue and interest in writing poetry that she had developed in high school and in the fall of 1957 she enrolled in a poetry workshop. In 1974 at the age of 46 she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In 1967 for live or die she lost a battle with mental illness a...