Diaries of Katherine Mansfield

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). Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

This transcription of the non-fiction parts of Mansfield’s Notebooks, meticulously edited and annotated by two of the world’s foremost Mansfield scholars, is both an indispensible academic tool and a delight to the common reader. Here is the writer at work in her own incomparably clever, sensitive and witty person.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Textual Note; Chronology: Katherine Mansfield 1888–1923; Introduction; 1901; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; Miscellany; Appendix: Errata for vols 1-3.