Her pursuit of solace and creativity and her craving for human compassion and intimacy tug at her in opposite directions. Journal of a Solitude also touches upon numerous topics like art, poetry, and the author’s struggle to establish herself as a female artist. This phase also marks the bitter end of her love relationship. The book is a genuine attempt at finding her inner anchor as she goes about her everyday activities.Īt the same time, Sarton also explores her depression, inner fears, apprehensions, and her frustration over unresolved anger and the glories she is yet to achieve. She reflects on her life in seclusion through this since account of her daily routine as well as her relationship with her pets, neighbors and the occasional visitor. Journal of a Solitude relates the events that occurred over the one year that Sarton spent in the quiet, idyllic village of Nelson, New Hampshire, far away from the city humdrum. She is interred in Nelson, New Hampshire. She breathed her last in 1995, succumbing to breast cancer. Nominated for the National Book Award on multiple occasions, Sarton also taught in several colleges and universities, including the Harvard University and Wellesley College. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965). Sarton was also vocal about her homosexuality in Mrs. These works also delve into the apprehensions that haunted Sarton throughout her life. She has also authored candid memoirs about her own life in Plant Dreaming Deep (1968) and Journal of a Solitude (1973) wherein she openly talks about her bouts of depression and self-doubt. Her notable works include Encounter in April (1937), The Lion and the Rose (1948), Coming into Eighty (1994), Private Mythology (1966), Halfway to Silence (1980), and Collected Poems: 1930-1993 (1993). Sarton authored over fifty books, which can be segregated into four genres – poetry, novels, journals, and memoirs. The family fled Belgium during the first World War and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where her father accepted a position at the Harvard University. May Sarton was born in 1912, in Belgium, to George Sarton, a prominent science historian, and Mabel Elwes, an English artist.
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