Katherine Mansfield : a hidden life / Gerri Kimber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimber, Gerri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Friends and associates.

Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.

Authors, New Zealand.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2025.

Summary:

This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism's most significant writers. On the fringes of Bloomsbury, and friends with D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot and many others, Mansfield was at the heart of literary London at its most experimental. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just 34, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield's 'was the only writing I was ever jealous of'. Based on compelling new research, Gerri Kimber challenges previous conceptions surrounding the author's life, uncovers friendships and relationships formerly barely acknowledged and offers innovative readings of Mansfield's most celebrated stories.

Contents:

Childhood, 1888-1908

London and Europe, 1908-9

The new age, 1910-11

Rhythm and the Blue Review, 1912-14

Death and didillusionment, 1915-17

Marriage and discontentment, 1918-20

Endgame, 1921-3

Afterlife.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index.

ISBN:

9781836391623

1836391625

OCLC:

1553093312