In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves--to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid." This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.
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Angela Smith is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and Director of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Stirling.
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If you're new to Katherine Mansfield, this is a good book to start with. Smith opens some doors for the novice or scholar. You might want to buy Vincent O'Sullivan's recent anthology published by Norton to use as your reading copy of KM's works. It's easy to find Antony Alper's excellent full length biography. It's essential reading too. If you are serious about your reading, Alpers also edited her works (Oxford U Press), and it's worth tracking down a copy -- not just for the logical arrangement of the text, but for his excellent notes.
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The first entry in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks is 'Enna Blake', a story that she wrote when she was nine; it was published in The High School Reporter in Wellington, New Zealand, accompanied by the schoolgirl editor's comment that it 'shows promise of great merit'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield, New Age, Fellow Passenger, Ida Baker, Virginia Woolf, Anne Estelle Rice, Ole Underwood, Van Gogh, Ottoline Morrell, Vincent O'Sullivan, House of Boxes, John Middleton Murry, Literary Lift, Michael Sadler, Pearl Button, Frederick Goodyear, Rupert Brooke, The Little Colonial, William Orton, Arnold Bennett, Blue Review, Daughters of the Late, Ezra Pound, First World War New!
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The first entry in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks is 'Enna Blake', a story that she wrote when she was nine; it was published in The High School Reporter in Wellington, New Zealand, accompanied by the schoolgirl editor's comment that it 'shows promise of great merit'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
born actress, personal writing, secret self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield, New Age, Fellow Passenger, Ida Baker, Virginia Woolf, Anne Estelle Rice, Ole Underwood, Van Gogh, Ottoline Morrell, Vincent O'Sullivan, House of Boxes, John Middleton Murry, Literary Lift, Michael Sadler, Pearl Button, Frederick Goodyear, Rupert Brooke, The Little Colonial, William Orton, Arnold Bennett, Blue Review, Daughters of the Late, Ezra Pound, First World War New!
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- Short Stories (Simply Stories: Level 3) by Katherine Mansfield on 5 pages
- Short Stories (Everyman's Classics) by Katherine Mansfield on 5 pages
- The Garden Party (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme) by Charles on 4 pages
- The Garden Party and Other Stories (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Katherine Mansfield on 4 pages
- Blue Review Cb: Blue Review 2 Vols by Murry Mansfield on page 75, page 87, and Back Matter
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- Garden Plots: The Politics And Poetics of Gardens by Shelley Saguaro on page 33, page 34, and Back Matter
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