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/.
Black and white photograph of Katherine Mansfield, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a knitted cardigan with a V-neck and a broad collar, over a light shirt. She has chin-length dark hair and bangs.
Black-and-white portrait photo of Katherine Mansfield. She is pictures in profile.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Flora Macdonald Mayor
Rediscovery of FMM was fostered by Sybil Oldfield , who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks ). During...
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 Vita Sackville-West
VSW received personal congratulations on her stories from Sir Edmund Gosse and John Galsworthy . Among reviewers the only unfavourable voice was that of Rebecca West . S. P. B. Mais in the Daily Express...
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
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...
Leisure and Society Eleanor Farjeon
EF seems never to have read the modernist male poets, Eliot or Pound or Auden; however, she did read and appreciate such women as Rosamond Lehmann , Storm Jameson , Katherine Mansfield , and Virginia Woolf .
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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Leisure and Society Carola Oman
In a letter to the Times in 1962, CO described a bookcase in her writing-room which held the works she described as All the Winners. For a writer of fairly conservative views and strong...
Intertextuality and Influence Ada Leverson
Edith Ottley is now a reader of Katherine Mansfield 's and John Middleton Murry 's Rhythm.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne.
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Though her husband is as unsatisfactory as before, she has gained stature, dignity, and moral self-confidence, though...
Intertextuality and Influence Tillie Olsen
By the time she entered high school she was keeping a journal in assorted and undated notebooks containing poems, bits of stories, drafts of letters, and reflections.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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One year into high school she began...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Garnett
On reading these translations, Katherine Mansfield wrote to CG : As I laid down my copy of War and Peace tonight I knew I could no longer refrain from thanking you for the whole other...
Intertextuality and Influence Ling Shuhua
LS and Zhimo continued to work together and he championed her work: he called her, approvingly, the Chinese Katherine Mansfield because of her style and her emphasis on the inner lives of women and girls...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth von Arnim
EA also influenced her cousin Katherine Mansfield (then Kathleen Beauchamp). EA 's biographer, Karen Usborne , describes how the young Kathleen frequently reread a copy of Elizabeth and her German Garden that she had received...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Whipple
She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
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She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...

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