Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

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. Christine Froula is a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at Northwestern University, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society. She has published widely on interdisciplinary modernism, feminist theory, and genetic criticism, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Columbia UP, 2007).

This is an impressively wide-ranging exploration of ‘the most timely meeting of writers in the history of literature’ (Ali Smith) illuminating the unhomed, dislocated ‘other rooms’ of Woolf’s and Mansfield’s six-year-long creative dialogue, encompassing obliquely angled portraiture, cities and sisterhood seen sideways, and distancing devices of distaste. ‘Other rooms’ also open onto unexpected vistas – public gardens, gardens of earthly delights, and cultivated flower beds of philosophy, thereby redimensioning intimacy, food and body politics, animality, stage-masks, and Time itself.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Thinking Sideways through One’s SistersChristine FroulaCRITICISMPowers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfMaud EllmannTogether and ApartMaria DiBattistaSeated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfSydney Janet KaplanKatherine’s SecretsChristine FroulaA Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew GardensKarina Jakubowicz‘roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife’: Hermeneutics of the Modern Female Face in Woolf and MansfieldHalyna ChumakThe Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf, and LawrenceCheryl HindrichsDangerous Reading in Mansfield’s Stories and Woolf’s ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’Brian RichardsonCREATIVE WRITINGTalkAli Smith: Getting Virginia Woolf's GoatPlayBarbara Egel: The Point of ‘Slater’s Pins’: An IntroductionBarbara Egel: Virginia Woolf's ‘Moments of Being: "Slater’s Pins Have No Points"’: A Dramatic AdaptationPoemsJackie Jones: ‘Katherine Mansfield’s Heirlooms’Maggie Rainey-Smith: ‘How too weird’CRITICAL MISCELLANY‘Not the kind to die’: Katherine Mansfield and the Unquiet Ghost of ‘little brother’J. Lawrence MitchellREVIEW ESSAY‘Which of my many […] hundreds of selves?’ Extending Mansfield’s Posthumous Literary ReputationClaire DreweryNotes on ContributorsIndex