Katherine Mansfield

14 October 1888 - 09 January 1923

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.

, No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6.

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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Literary responses	E. B. C. Jones	Mansfield further praised its distinction of style. Rebecca West found in it a sense of character that can be brilliant or touching. Her slightly acerbic account of characters and their milieu—the tone of...
Literary responses	Daisy Ashford	J. M. Barrie praised the liveliness of the writing: How incomparably, for instance, the authoress dives into her story at once. How cunningly throughout she keeps us on the hooks of suspense, jumping to Mr...
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	Mary Lavin	This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day. qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. In Ireland, wrote the...
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
Literary responses	Virginia Woolf	Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell
Literary responses	Dorothy Richardson	Other reviews of the book, which appeared immediately after its publication, were not altogether positive. Katherine Mansfield , in the Athenæum, commented that even while DR 's talent for reproducing the minute details of...
Literary responses	Dorothy Richardson	Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
Literary responses	Enid Bagnold	The novel was well received. In the AthenæumKatherine Mansfield congratulated EB for creating a pioneer who sees, feels, thinks, hears, and yet is herself full of the sap of life. qtd. in Bagnold, Enid, and Laurian Jones. National Velvet. W. Heinemann, 1935. back cover qtd. in Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 76 Rebecca West
Literary responses	Rosamond Lehmann	Given both the nature of the central event—a ball—and Olivia's youthful enthusiasm, the novel has been compared to Katherine Mansfield 's short story Her First Ball. It was an immediate success with the reviewers...
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...
Occupation	Virginia Woolf	Once the press was repaired they printed their handbill. Their first book (Two Stories, containing Virginia's The Mark on the Wall and Leonard's Three Jews) had to be set up and printed...
Occupation	Virginia Woolf	The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 371-3 Its political interests were served by enlightened...
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...
Occupation	Barbara Pym	This work gave her considerable free time, most of which she spent reading such authors as Austen , Johnson , Scott , and Trollope . She particularly admired the forms of Mansfield 's published scrapbook...

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