The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Volume 3, Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918 / edited and annotated by Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davison, Claire, editor.

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Series:

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. 2012. Works.

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Correspondence.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957--Correspondence.

Murry, John Middleton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 425 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Unlike the first two volumes of this new edition of Katherine Mansfield’s letters, which encompassed a dazzling variety of correspondents, this third volume focuses exclusively on letters to John Middleton Murry, chronologically arranged, from the day when he first became her lodger in 1912 through to the week after the Armistice in November 1918, when they were newly married. It is no exaggeration to say that over the course of these six years, their entire world was turned upside down. By the time the volume closes, they are married but already increasingly estranged; they have both become professional writers but grapple with increasing economic precarity; Europe lies ravaged by war; and the devastating diagnosis of tuberculosis has been pronounced, not, ironically, for Murry whose fragile health had preoccupied them for two years, but for Mansfield herself. This volume of letters documents the whole spectrum of changes, against a vivid historical and socio-cultural backcloth and contains entirely new, insightful and extensive annotations. A second volume of letters between the pair completes the edition" --Publisher description.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Textual Notes and Abbreviations

Letters Chronology: Volume 3

Editor's Preface

Introduction to John Middleton Murry (1889-1957)

Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1912-1918

Works Consulted

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Jan 05, 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781474445559

1474445551

9781474445542

1474445543