Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25). Vincent O’Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellington, is the world’s foremost Mansfield scholar and is President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. He has edited, with Margaret Scott, the five volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Collected Letters, published by Oxford University Press. He is also widely published as a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and biographer.

This much needed and very welcome work does two important things: It gives us all of Mansfield’s fiction, with useful notes; and it removes many of John Middleton Murry’s intrusions into the stories he edited after Mansfield’s death. We all owe the editors, Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, a debt of gratitude for this excellent edition of the work of a major modernist writer.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Textual Note; Chronology; Introduction; Fiction 1898–1915; 1898; Enna Blake; 1899; A Happy Christmas Eve; 1901; The Great Examination; 1903; The Pine Tree, The Sparrows, and You and I; Misunderstood; She; A True Tale; ‘It was a big bare house’; ‘I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned’; Two Ideas with One Moral; 1904; Die Einsame (The Lonely One); Your Birthday; One Day; 1905; About Pat; 1906; My Potplants; Les Deux Étrangères; Juliet; ‘I was never happy’, Huia said; Memories; The Tale of the Three; 1907; L’Incendie; Vignette: Summer in Winter; Summer Idyll; Night Came Swiftly; She and the Boy; or the Story of the Funny-Old-Thing; ‘She unpacked her box’; Vignettes; Vignette: Through the Autumn Afternoon; Silhouettes; In a Café; In the Botanical Gardens; Leves Amores; The Story of Pearl Button; Vignette: Sunset Tuesday; ‘On waking next morning’; An Attempt; Vignette: Westminster Cathedral; ‘She sat on the broad window-sill’; The Man, the Monkey and the Mask; 1908; The Education of Audrey; Juliette Delacour; The Unexpected Must Happen; Vignette: By the Sea; In Summer; The Yellow Chrysanthemum; The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations; Vignette: They are a ridiculous company; The Thoughtful Child; Rewa; The Tiredness of Rosabel; Study: The Death of a Rose; Youth and Age; Vignette: I look out through the window; Almost a Tragedy: The Cars on Lambton Quay; 1909; A God, One Day on Mount Olympus; ‘He met her again on the Pier at Eastbourne’; Prose; His Sister’s Keeper; 1910; The Child-Who-Was-Tired; Germans at Meat; Mary; The Baron; The Luft Bad; At ‘Lehmann’s’; Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding; The Sister of the Baroness; Frau Fischer; A Fairy Story; 1911; A Birthday; The Modern Soul; The Festival of the Coronation; The Journey to Bruges; Being a Truthful Adventure; The Advanced Lady; The Swing of the Pendulum; A Blaze; The Green Tree: A Fairy Story; 1912; A Marriage of Passion; At the Club; The Woman at the Store; Green Goggles; Tales of a Courtyard; How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped; Spring in a Dream; New Dresses; The Little Girl; The House; Old Cockatoo Curl; 1913; Ole Underwood; Epilogue I: Pension Seguin; Millie; Epilogue II; Bains Turcs; Old Tar; Maata; Young Country; Rose Eagle; 1914; Something Childish But Very Natural; KT and her sister; Hydrangeas; ‘There is always something wonderfully touching’; 1915; Brave Love; The Little Governess; The Beautiful Miss Richardson; Spring Pictures; Rough Sketch; An Indiscreet Journey; Autumns: I; Autumns: II; Stay-laces; The Dark Hollow; The Aloe; Appendix A: Plan of Maata; Index of first lines; Index of stories.

Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25). Vincent O’Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellington, is the world’s foremost Mansfield scholar and is President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. He has edited, with Margaret Scott, the five volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Collected Letters, published by Oxford University Press. He is also widely published as a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and biographer.

This much needed and very welcome work does two important things: It gives us all of Mansfield’s fiction, with useful notes; and it removes many of John Middleton Murry’s intrusions into the stories he edited after Mansfield’s death. We all owe the editors, Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, a debt of gratitude for this excellent edition of the work of a major modernist writer.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Textual Note; Chronology; Introduction; Fiction 1898–1915; 1898; Enna Blake; 1899; A Happy Christmas Eve; 1901; The Great Examination; 1903; The Pine Tree, The Sparrows, and You and I; Misunderstood; She; A True Tale; ‘It was a big bare house’; ‘I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned’; Two Ideas with One Moral; 1904; Die Einsame (The Lonely One); Your Birthday; One Day; 1905; About Pat; 1906; My Potplants; Les Deux Étrangères; Juliet; ‘I was never happy’, Huia said; Memories; The Tale of the Three; 1907; L’Incendie; Vignette: Summer in Winter; Summer Idyll; Night Came Swiftly; She and the Boy; or the Story of the Funny-Old-Thing; ‘She unpacked her box’; Vignettes; Vignette: Through the Autumn Afternoon; Silhouettes; In a Café; In the Botanical Gardens; Leves Amores; The Story of Pearl Button; Vignette: Sunset Tuesday; ‘On waking next morning’; An Attempt; Vignette: Westminster Cathedral; ‘She sat on the broad window-sill’; The Man, the Monkey and the Mask; 1908; The Education of Audrey; Juliette Delacour; The Unexpected Must Happen; Vignette: By the Sea; In Summer; The Yellow Chrysanthemum; The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations; Vignette: They are a ridiculous company; The Thoughtful Child; Rewa; The Tiredness of Rosabel; Study: The Death of a Rose; Youth and Age; Vignette: I look out through the window; Almost a Tragedy: The Cars on Lambton Quay; 1909; A God, One Day on Mount Olympus; ‘He met her again on the Pier at Eastbourne’; Prose; His Sister’s Keeper; 1910; The Child-Who-Was-Tired; Germans at Meat; Mary; The Baron; The Luft Bad; At ‘Lehmann’s’; Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding; The Sister of the Baroness; Frau Fischer; A Fairy Story; 1911; A Birthday; The Modern Soul; The Festival of the Coronation; The Journey to Bruges; Being a Truthful Adventure; The Advanced Lady; The Swing of the Pendulum; A Blaze; The Green Tree: A Fairy Story; 1912; A Marriage of Passion; At the Club; The Woman at the Store; Green Goggles; Tales of a Courtyard; How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped; Spring in a Dream; New Dresses; The Little Girl; The House; Old Cockatoo Curl; 1913; Ole Underwood; Epilogue I: Pension Seguin; Millie; Epilogue II; Bains Turcs; Old Tar; Maata; Young Country; Rose Eagle; 1914; Something Childish But Very Natural; KT and her sister; Hydrangeas; ‘There is always something wonderfully touching’; 1915; Brave Love; The Little Governess; The Beautiful Miss Richardson; Spring Pictures; Rough Sketch; An Indiscreet Journey; Autumns: I; Autumns: II; Stay-laces; The Dark Hollow; The Aloe; Appendix A: Plan of Maata; Index of first lines; Index of stories.