Restless Spirit (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Miriam Gurko
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1892–1950
- Setting: Maine, Massachusetts, and New York
- Principal Characters: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cora Millay, Norma Millay, Kathleen Millay, Eugen Boissevain
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Poetry or poets, Writing, 1920’s, Sisters, Reading, Biography
- Locales: New York, Massachusetts, Maine
Form and Content
In each of the twenty-four short chapters of Restless Spirit: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, biographer Miriam Gurko chronologically traces the people, locales, and literary figures that influenced and shaped Millay or “Vincent,” as she was fondly called from childhood until her death. Beginning with the earliest and most important influences—reading, wildlife, the ocean, music, and, perhaps most of all, her beloved family—each chapter offers a portrait of Millay’s growth as a writer and as an independent, freethinking individual....
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