Katherine Mansfield. Selected Letters. (Oxford Letters & Memoirs) - Softcover

Mansfield, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192820524 ISBN 13: 9780192820525

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1990

Synopsis

This selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence - from her first schoolgirl exchanges of 1903 to the last letters from the Gurdjieff Institute of Fontainebleau 20 years later - conveys her vivid and restless personality throughout a life that has become almost legendary for its vivacity and courage. It presents the voice of a new kind of 20th-century woman, in an erratic but determined movement towards self-definition. The selection draws from the five volumes of Mansfield's "Collected Letters", and covers the range of her epistolary styles. Many of the letters are to John Middleton Murry, a moving record of what she called "that utterly intense love"; others are to such friends as Lady Ottoline Morrell and S.S.Koteliansky, the painters Anne Estelle Drey and Dorothy Brett, her own family, literary friends and chance acquaintances.

About this title

About the Author

About the Editor:
Vincent O'Sullivan is Professor of English at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is co-editor with Margaret Scott of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192820524
• ISBN 13: 9780192820525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320