May Sarton graduated from The High and Latin School in Cambridge in 1929. Closset remained an intimate friend and mentor of Sarton's and became the inspiration for her first novel, The Single Hound. It was here she met Marie Closset, its founder who wrote and published poetry under the name Jean Dominique. When she was twelve years old Sarton traveled to Belgium for a year to live with the Limbosch family, Céline, Raymond and their children, studying at the Institut Belge de Culture Française. May Sarton later wrote eloquently of these years in her memoir I Knew a Phoenix. May enrolled in the "progressive" Shady Hill School and here, through the influence of Agnes Hocking, founder and poetry teacher, developed her life long love for and interest in poetry. In 1916 the Sartons arrived in the United States after fleeing Belgium and the advancing Germans, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts where George Sarton took up a post at Harvard as a part-time instructor and, with financial assistance from the Carnegie Institute, as a full time scholar, devoting his life to the study of the history of science. In that same year George Sarton, a historian of science, founded the journal Isis and, as May Sarton described, "My father always referred to us together and dedicated one of his books to "Eleanor Mabel, mother of those strange twins, May and Isis." 1 From her father May learned about discipline and a fierce dedication to work and from her mother, an artist and designer, she learned about dedication and creativity, whether applied to gardening or to life. May Sarton, the only child of George and Mabel Elwes Sarton, was born in Wondelgem, Belgium in 1912.
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