Bøger af Margot Peters

Holding a doctorate in Victorian literature and women's studies, author Margot Peters has written seven biographies of famous writers and actors. Now, she turns her talents toward her own life with this powerful new memoir and looks into the past of one of the most important women in her young life: her grandmother. As Peters chronicles a childhood full of abuse and invective, it becomes clear that Emma wasn't your typical grandmother. Peters spent her formative years living in Emma's house-knowing no possible escape from her grandmother's insults and punishments. The only way Peters could fight back was through childish rebellion and simmering anger. But Peters isn't a little girl anymore-she has the maturity and experience to try to unpack the mystery that was Emma's life. Why was she so bitter? What turned her into the woman she became? As Peters dives deeply into her grandmother's past and the history of their small community of Wausau, Wisconsin, she realizes that the answers won't be easy to find. She doesn't, however, give up the search. In the end, her exploration of one woman's life reveals startling truths about her own.

From acclaimed writer Margot Peters comes the first, completely authorized biography of novelist, poet, and feminist May Sarton. Granted unprecedented access to personal papers and diaries, Peters gives us a compelling look at the woman who influenced a legion of readers with rich and intimate writings, and reveals the fascinating life that Sarton herself kept hidden. Beginning with a young Sarton largely ignored by her parents, Peters traces the compulsive quest for recognition and artistic inspiration that would characterize most of Sarton''s life. We witness her at nineteen as she chooses a life in the theater, only to discover later her real passion: writing. As her literary career takes shape, we watch her personal and professional struggles for acceptance, her intense relationships with such learned friends as Muriel Rukeyser and Louise Bogan, and her secret turmoil over her sexuality. But ultimately, we see Sarton begin to create in her works the image of a strong, independent woman who lived peacefully with solitude--an image that often contradicted the reality of her life.

Through Margot Peters's compelling biography, readers will discover Lorine Niedecker as a poet of spare and brilliant verse and a woman whose talent and grit carried her through periods of desperation and despair.