Editing Anne Sexton (section)

==Early life and family==
Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in [[Newton, Massachusetts]] to Mary Gray (Staples) Harvey (1901–1959) and Ralph Churchill Harvey (1900–1959). She had two older sisters, Jane Elizabeth (Harvey) Jealous (1923–1983) and Blanche Dingley (Harvey) Taylor (1925–2011). She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], later spending a year at [[Garland Junior College|Garland School]].<ref>Middlebrook, p. 21.</ref> For a time she [[model (person)|modeled]] for Boston's Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Muller Sexton II and they remained together until 1973.<ref>{{cite web |last=Nelson |first=Cary |url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sexton/chrono.htm |title=Anne Sexton Chronology |work=Modern American Poetry website |publisher=[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] |date=2008-08-27 |access-date=2009-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219234755/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sexton/chrono.htm |archive-date= 19 February 2009  |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=morris >{{cite web |last=Morris |first=Tim |title=A Brief Biography of the Life of Anne Sexton |url=http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/poetry/as/bio1.html |date=1999-04-23 |publisher=[[University of Texas at Arlington]] |access-date=2009-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601155110/http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/poetry/as/bio1.html |archive-date=1 June 2007}}</ref> Sexton had her first child, [[Linda Gray Sexton]], in 1953. Her second child, Joyce Ladd Sexton, was born two years later.