The 'magnificent spinster' is Jane Reid, a teacher who became not only a revered role model but a...

Ethereal and sensual, these intenselyvivid poems capture the sights and textures ofnew places...

May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Ham...

Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His de...

May Sarton-poet, novelist, and chronicler-occupies a special place in American letters. This new ...

She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her own heart. The ho...

So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to...

Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more...

It is the death of Persis Bradford, Francis's mother, a most unusual woman with an intense feelin...

This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton's earliest and, some critics think, one...

'May Sarton has become one of America's best-loved writers. . . The publication of the first coll...

When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she ...