Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. 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). A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin’s primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations IntroductionCRITICISMTowards a Vegan Future: Animal Death and the First World War in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction, Brigitte N. McCray‘Oh, those grown-ups’, Angela SmithJacob’s Wrestling with the Angel from Bible Myth to Walter Pater’s and Katherine Mansfield’s Stories, Maurizio AscariThe Deadliest Game of Snooker: Katherine Mansfield’s Great War Revisited, Janka KascakovaKatherine Mansfield, ‘The Cowiness of the Cow’ and Medical History, Derek RyanKatherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Stanley and ‘The Song of Songs’, Erika BaldtThe Spanish Lady Cannot Speak: Katherine Mansfield and ‘Miasmic Modernism’, Jessica WhyteRestlessness Transformed: Revisiting the Metaphor of Tuberculosis in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks and Letters, Wen-Shan ShiehCREATIVE WRITING Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Praeludium Chopins’, Martin Griffiths‘At the Bay’, C. K. Stead‘Waiting for Snow’John Middleton Murry (with a note by Gerri Kimber)CRITICAL MISCELLANY John Middleton Murry’s Unfinished Second Volume of Autobiography, Charles FerrallREVIEW ESSAYKatherine Mansfield, Illness, Recuperation and Re-enchantment, Rishona ZimringNotes on ContributorsIndex