Katherine Mansfield and London

Aime Gasston, Gerri Kimber (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3917-3 (ISBN)

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A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London

Katherine Mansfield's complicated relationship with London began in 1903, when her parents sent her and her two older sisters from New Zealand to Queen's College in Harley Street to be educated, and where they remained until the summer of 1906. As soon as she was back in Wellington, she longed to return, her parents finally agreeing to her returning to London to forge a career as a writer, no longer 'Kathleen Beauchamp' but 'Katherine Mansfield'. As an adult, Mansfield had a love/hate relationship with London, but it remained central to her literary career. Mansfield became part of a literary couple with John Middleton Murry, and together they forged connections with most of the important writers in London at that time, thanks to their editorship of several little magazines and their own published work. As the symptoms of Mansfield's tuberculosis increased, and she spent more and more time away from England, seeking a healthier climate, life in London became a series of brief sojourns. It remained, however, at the heart of her literary life until her early death.
This book combines a range of cutting-edge scholarship on themes including Mansfield's school life, telephony, the weather, literary sources and influences, music, and hotels, also including reviews of relevant publications in the field, a diverse range of creative writing, and the first publication of notes by Mansfield's early friend and contemporary in London, Margaret Wishart.

Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Katherine Mansfield's London
Aimée Gasston
CRITICISM
Katherine Mansfield and the London Rain
A. C. Wang
Wired: Katherine Mansfield and the Telephone
Chris Mourant
Katherine Mansfield and Margaret Wishart in London during the Years 1908–1909 and Beyond: Intimacy and Separation, Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Moira Taylor and Charles Woodhouse
‘The odour of chrysanthemums’: Katherine Mansfield’s School Years in London
Gerri Kimber
Music and London: Katherine Mansfield’s Experiments in Form
Martin Griffiths
‘On her eyelids the lovely pear tree’: A Reading of the Sources in ‘Bliss’
Francesca Moro
CREATIVE WRITING
Short Story
‘Psychology, or The Pram’
Lesley Sharpe
Poetry
‘47 Redcliffe Road’
Philip Ward
‘Writing With Katherine’
Siobhan Brownlie
‘The Aloe’
Camilla Delhanty
‘Letters Unsent’
Orion Foote
‘Love Letter’
Sourima Rana
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
Notes re K. M.
Margaret Wishart (m. Woodhouse)
‘Rest. Stay’. Life in the Hotels of Katherine Mansfield
Andrew Thacker
A Shared Understanding: How Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Garden Party’ Adapts Leo Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyitch’
Lorne Mook
REVIEW ESSAYS
Many Mansfields
Erika Baldt
His and Her Victorians
Rishona Zimring
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Katherine Mansfield Studies
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-3995-3917-5 / 1399539175
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-3917-3 / 9781399539173
Zustand	Neuware