Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years

AvGerri Kimber

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield’s life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfield’s childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a writer. The biography draws extensively on previously unused archive material, including the research papers assembled by Ruth Elvish Mantz for her 1933 biography of Mansfield, detailed reminiscences of former school friends and acquaintances, Mansfield’s autograph book, birthday book, her early letters, notebooks and family papers. Using this rich seam of material, Gerri Kimber explores Mansfield’s home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and her travels through the volcanic North Island of New Zealand and examines her earliest published stories which appeared in school magazines. What emerges is a picture of a feisty, mischievous, young girl and an expressive, non-conformist teenager: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who became Katherine Mansfield, the famous modernist writer.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:756 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748681457

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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).

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The details and research covered by Gerri, make the character of Katherine come alive. Just reading the many snippets that are contained in this book will certainly promote an interest in Katherine Mansfield, and place her name among those great writers in history.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by C. K. Stead; Introduction; 1. Ancestors; 2. Harold and Annie Beauchamp; 3. 11 Tinakori Road: 1888-1893; 4. Chesney Wold, Karori: 1893-1898; 5. Back to Thorndon: 75 Tinakori Road, 1898-1903; 6. Queen’s College, London: 1903-1906; 7. Thorndon: 1906-1908; Bibliography.