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Katherine mansfield - the early years / Gerri Kimber.

LIBRA PR6025.A57 Z737 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kimber, Gerri, Senior Lecturer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Mansfield, Katherine.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.
Authors, New Zealand.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Summary:
A new biography of Katherine Mansfield's formative years illustrated with photographs never published before Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfield's childhood and teenage years to her development as a writer and offers unique insights into her New Zealand stories. Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfield's former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, Mansfield's autograph book, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfield's home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and reveals the effect Mansfield's experiences had on her earliest stories. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a feisty and imaginative young girl who would turn into an expressive, non-conformist adolescent: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who would become Katherine Mansfield, the celebrated modernist writer. Illustrated with 120 photographs. Book jacket.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Ancestors 5
Chapter 2 Harold and Annie Beauchamp 13
Chapter 3 11 Tinakori Road: 1888-1893 23
Chapter 4 Chesney Wold, Karori: 1893-1898 39
Chapter 5 Back to Thorndon: 75 Tinakori Road, 1898-1903 59
Chapter 6 Queen's College, London: 1903-1906 98
Chapter 7 Thorndon: 1906-1908 166.
ISBN:
0748681450
9780748681457
OCLC:
949913152

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