Jane Rye

The mad, mum-fixated maiden aunt of modernism

Marianne Moore slept in the same bed as her mother and dined with her on the edge of the bath-tub — this may have helped her poetry, says Linda Leavell in Holding on Upside Down

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Marianne Moore Photo: Getty

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