Katherine Mansfield

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Standard Name: Mansfield, Katherine
Birth Name: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
Nickname: Wig
Nickname: Kissienka
Married Name: Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Self-constructed Name: Katherine Mansfield
Pseudonym: Katherine Mansfield
Pseudonym: K. M.
Pseudonym: Boris Petrovsky
KM 's life was short and much of her writing experimental or oriented towards earning. Though contemporary reviewers sometimes condescended to her youth, gender, and magazine publication, she is now seen as one of our great modernists, her innovations so familiar as to be unnoticeable.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
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As well as one of the most interesting and original short-story writers of the Modernist movement, she was a significant letter-writer and diarist. Her poetry, too, is of interest. Claire Tomalin remarked that her diary in particular has made her a cult figure for young women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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Textual Production Dorothy Brett
From about a month after Katherine Mansfield died until the end of the year (with a kind of postscript before leaving for New Mexico), DB kept a surviving diary in a volume given her by...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Brett
DB 's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke , born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie
Reception Rhoda Broughton
In a lamentable
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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article on the death of Virginia Woolf , Hugh Walpole accused literary ladies of acting like priestesses engaged in throwing fragrant incense on their own altars. The first name he mentions...
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
At a party given by Dorothy Brett at her Hampstead studio, DC met and began a friendship with Katherine Mansfield .
Tomalin, Claire. Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life. Alfred Knopf.
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Literary responses Leonora Carrington
Helen Byatt traces the quests of The Hearing Trumpet to texts the author encountered as a child, including the pre-Christian fairy tales and Celtic narratives shared by her nanny and maternal relatives along with Robert Graves
Literary responses Catherine Carswell
According to CC 's son, this was the first time a first novel had won the Melrose Prize. She offered half the prize money of £250 to her friend and literary mentor D. H. Lawrence
Textual Features Angela Carter
It includes work by Katherine Mansfield , Leonora Carrington , Elizabeth Jolley , Jamaica Kincaid , and Carter herself. She carefully avoided identifying bad girls with sexual profligates, but looked for a certain cussedness, a bloodymindedness..
Laws-Wall, Lydia. “One of a kind”. Mslexia, No. 48, p. 53.
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Textual Production Willa Cather
WC issued a volume of essays entitled Not Under Forty, which includes analysis of the writing of Sarah Orne Jewett and Katherine Mansfield .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Willa Cather
To one of the essays here, The Novel Démeublé, belongs WC 's famous insistence that selection of detail is what matters in art and literature, that too much detail is mere cataloguing. Her essay...
Occupation Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
His work had great impact in England, where he was praised by George Bernard Shaw , Katherine Mansfield , Virginia Woolf , and E. M. Forster . Constance Garnett translated many of his works...
Literary Setting Kate Clanchy
Some stories concern painful and intractible moral and emotional dilemmas as they present themselves in ordinary life, like the inner defences automatically in place against believing that one's father has Alzheimer's. Several explore the relationship...
Intertextuality and Influence Victoria Cross
Sewell Stokes , in a brief portrait of VC in 1928, described her as one who had at one time been accused of poisoning the purity of British homes with her sordid writings ....
Textual Features Nancy Cunard
The nineteen women poets represented (not a bad proportion among seventy) are, besides Cunard and Mackworth, Sylvia Townsend Warner (by three poems) and Valentine Ackland , Mollie Charteris Craven , Wilma Cawdor , V. C. Grant
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...
Textual Production Margiad Evans
Among other writers of stories, she admired not Virginia Woolf or Katherine Mansfield , but the greater power and fury of Eudora Welty ,
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, and Margiad Evans. “Introduction”. The Old and the Young, Seren, pp. 7-17.
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as well as several male Welsh writers in English, and...

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