In a letter to Dorothy Brett
, Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves...
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Mansfield
Four days after her divorce from Bowden
, KM
married John Middleton Murry
at the Register Office
in South Kensington.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
412
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Brett
Whilst studying at the Slade, Brett was pursued by her instructor Frederick Brown
(co-founder of the New English Art Club
). After her graduation she brought Brown along to the Roman Camp to meet her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Mansfield
As a result of her first book, KM
met John Middleton Murry
, an Oxford undergraduate from the lower middle class who was editing a magazine.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
134-5, 406
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Mansfield
John Middleton Murry
became KM
's lodger; soon afterwards he became her lover.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
406
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Mansfield
On discovering that Murry
and Brett
were intimately involved, KM
wrote, I am simply disgusted to my very soul.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
318
Family and Intimate relationships
Katherine Mansfield
KM
left Murry
, and London, for a visit to France and to Francis Carco
, whom she had met through Murry. This affair proved fairly brief, but it began a pattern of leaving Murry...
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
323
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Brett
Despite the women's close rapport, Brett harboured a deep attraction to Murry
, of which he was well aware. Hignett suggests that the two began a liaison sometime in the winter of 1920, five years...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Mansfield
James Joyce
had tea with KM
and Murry
in Paris (only weeks after the first appearance of Ulysses).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
417
Friends, Associates
Dora Carrington
Shortly after this they rented a house at 3 Gower Street: Carrington paid £9 to stay nine months in the attic, while Mansfield and her husband
occupied the bottom floor, Brett
the second, and...
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
407
Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Mansfield
KM
and John Middleton Murry
visited the LawrencesFrieda Lawrence
at Higher Tregerthen near Zennor in Cornwall.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
409
Friends, Associates
Katherine Mansfield
KM
and John Middleton Murry
visited Garsington with Alvaro Guevara
, who was known as Chile.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
411
Timeline
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
July 1955: The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923...
Writing climate item
July 1955
The Adelphi, which was launched in June 1923 with John Middleton Murry
as editor, issued its final number.
Texts
Murry, John Middleton, and Anne Finch. “Introduction”. Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720, Jonathan Cape, 1928, pp. 3-20.
Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1927.
Mansfield, Katherine. Novels & Novelists. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Beacon Press, 1930.
Mansfield, Katherine. Poems. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. Something Childish and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable, 1924, http://U of A HSS.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1923.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable and Company, 1928.
