Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2

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

This meticulously edited second volume of the Edinburgh Collected Letters gives us Mansfield the writer, artist and editor in her experimental prime, reflecting on her work in innovative ways that expand and deepen our sense of her oeuvre. The clustered arrangement, embracing some of the key figures in her writing life, including Ottoline Morrell, Anne Estelle Rice and Virginia Woolf, shows the leading modernist honing her self-awareness as a writer, contributing in vital ways to developing some of the techniques and ideas now understood to be signatures of modernism – rhythm, ellipsis, the porous self and the moment in time.

• AcknowledgementsTextual Note and AbbreviationsLetters Chronology: Volume 2 Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Epistolarity - Claire Davison and Gerri KimberThe Collected Letters K–ZEdmond Xavier Kapp - Introduction by Gerri Kimber‘Cousin Kate’ - Introduction by Redmer YskaAlexander Kay - Introduction by Gerri KimberAlfred A. Knopf - Introduction by Claire DavisonS. S. Koteliansky - Introduction by J. Lawrence Mitchell Frieda Lawrence - Introduction by Aimée GasstonRobert Lynd - Introduction by Gerri KimberSylvia Lynd - Introduction by Gerri KimberCompton Mackenzie - Introduction by Claire DavisonMaata Mahupuku - Introduction by Anna PlumridgeDr Ivan Manoukhin - Introduction by Claire DavisonEdward Marsh - Introduction by Gerri KimberElkin Mathews - Introduction by Gerri KimberR. B. T. Miller - Introduction by Gerri KimberSarah Gertrude Millin - Introduction by Claire DavisonJulian Morrell - Introduction by Claire DavisonLady Ottoline Morrell - Introduction by C. K. SteadThomas and Bessie Moult - Introduction by Gerri KimberRichard Murry - Introduction by Kathleen JonesThe New Age - Introduction by Chris Mourant(Mary) Edna Nixon - Introduction by Gerri KimberA. R. Orage - Introduction by Chris MourantWilliam Orton - Introduction by J. Lawrence MitchellClara Palmer - Introduction by Gerri KimberHerbert Palmer - Introduction by Claire DavisonSylvia Payne - Introduction by Gerri KimberJohn Campbell Perkins Introduction by Gerri KimberEric Pinker - Introduction by Chris MourantJ. B. Pinker - Introduction by Chris MourantMartha Putnam - Introduction by Gerri KimberRibnikov (‘Ribni’) - Introduction by Claire DavisonAnne Estelle Rice - Introduction by Aimée GasstonDaniel Rider - Introduction by Claire DavisonViscountess Rothermere - Introduction by Claire DavisonBerta Ruck - Introduction by Gerri KimberJohn Ruddick - Introduction by Gerri KimberThe Hon. Bertrand Russell - Introduction by Claire DavisonMichael Sadleir - Introduction by Chris MourantSydney Schiff - Introduction by Helen RydstrandViolet Schiff - Introduction by Helen RydstrandMartin Secker - Introduction by Claire DavisonClement Shorter - Introduction by Jenny McDonnellDr Victor Sorapure - Introduction by Gerri KimberJ. C. Squire - Introduction by Claire DavisonLytton Strachey - Introduction by Claire DavisonFrank Swinnerton - Introduction by Claire DavisonLilian Trench - Introduction by Gerri KimberR. C. Trevelyan - Introduction by Claire Davison(Thomas) Arnold Trowell - Introduction by Martin GriffithsGarnet Trowell - Introduction by Martin GriffithsThomas Luigi Trowell - Introduction by Martin GriffithsMarion Tweed - Introduction by Gerri KimberHugh Walpole - Introduction by Claire DavisonSydney Waterlow - Introduction by Claire DavisonOrlo Williams - Introduction by Claire DavisonWingley and Athenaeum - Introduction by Gerri KimberLeonard Woolf - Introduction by Claire DavisonVirginia Woolf - Introduction by Claire DavisonUnidentified recipients - Introduction by Gerri KimberOmission from Volume 1AppendixWorks ConsultedIndex