Ida Baker

While KM was at Queen's College she met Ida Baker , who remained a friend throughout her life. They decided on each other's professional names: Ida Baker became Leslie Moore or L. M., a combination...

KM went to Paris with L. M. to consult Dr Manoukhin .

The recently married KM and John Middleton Murry moved into their own home at 2 Portland Villas, Hampstead (along with L. M. , who had given up her job to housekeep for them).

KM , John Middleton Murry , and L. M. settled at Sierre in Switzerland.

Four stories by KM , written in about 1908, remained unpublished. Ida Baker gave the manuscripts of these stories, in the 1960s, to Miron Grindea , editor of ADAM International Review. Remaining in the...

KM , ill and pregnant, travelled from London to Bruges, and then on to Geneva, where L. M. later joined her. She visited Geneva again in February 1912.

KM travelled alone (leaving Murry behind) from London to Bandol in France; there L. M. joined her the following month.

KM and L. M. reached to England on her return from France, and Mansfield went back to Murry in London.

KM lived with L. M. and partly with John Middleton Murry , at Ospedaletti near San Remo in Italy.