Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
35
, 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/.
The stories here deal with all kinds of complexity and nuance in the sisterly relationship. The collection ends, as the introduction begins, with Christina Rossetti
's Goblin Market. The nineteenth century is further represented...
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Ngaio Marsh
Having begun as a journalist, NM
often took up opportunities to comment on the world around her in articles or interviews. She spoke on the BBC when she arrived in London after the war about...
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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.
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Dorothy Richardson
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry
, who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield
had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
41-2, 90, 212
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E. B. C. Jones
The year before her marriage, EBCJ
published her first novel, Quiet Interior, which Katherine Mansfield
welcomed as remarkably well constructed for a debut.
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.
Mansfield, Katherine. Novels & Novelists. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Beacon Press.
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
Helen Shaw
edited and published a volume of correspondence between LOM
and New Zealand poet D'Arcy Cresswell
. The text also includes Morrell's biographical essay on Katherine Mansfield
.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and D’Arcy Cresswell. Dear Lady Ginger. Editor Shaw, Helen, Century Press.
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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...
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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...
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Ali Smith
With her background in academia and her work reviewing fiction for The Scotsman and The Guardian, AS
has produced an impressive amount of literary criticism. She has written critical introductions for reissues of work...
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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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Ling Shuhua
These included Once Upon a Time, about the lesbian desire between two students at a girls' boarding school; the politically-oriented story Waiting, inspired by fatalities during student protests; and a translation of Katherine Mansfield
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Susan Hill
The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph
as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern...
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Ngaio Marsh
NM
clearly establishes her sense of the importance of the arts in national life and identity. She vividly evokes the situation of the early settlers in New Zealand as interlopers, white Victorians segregated from...
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Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
