The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1
Letters to Correspondents A - J
Published on 28. February 2020
Book
Hardback
680 pages
978-1-4744-4544-3 (ISBN)
Description
A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence
Provides accurate transcriptions that shed new light on the everyday, intimate world of Mansfield as a letter-writerOrganised A-Z, which foregrounds the lives and personalities of her correspondents, along with the various self-fictionalising games that the letter-writer playedShowcases letters and sections of letters that have never previously been publishedProvides meticulous explanatory notes and rich contextual informationOffers extensive attention to the cultural and socio-political context of the correspondenceFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life. A detailed introduction, together with biographical portraits for each correspondent, enhance the cultural and socio-historical context, while the letters themselves offer a detailed expose of Mansfield's life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of war and disease, to nature and the environment and fashions and food. The volume also reveals the intimacies of some of Mansfield's most prized friendships.
Provides accurate transcriptions that shed new light on the everyday, intimate world of Mansfield as a letter-writerOrganised A-Z, which foregrounds the lives and personalities of her correspondents, along with the various self-fictionalising games that the letter-writer playedShowcases letters and sections of letters that have never previously been publishedProvides meticulous explanatory notes and rich contextual informationOffers extensive attention to the cultural and socio-political context of the correspondenceFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life. A detailed introduction, together with biographical portraits for each correspondent, enhance the cultural and socio-historical context, while the letters themselves offer a detailed expose of Mansfield's life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of war and disease, to nature and the environment and fashions and food. The volume also reveals the intimacies of some of Mansfield's most prized friendships.
Reviews / Votes
Each section of Davison and Kimber's richly researched new Letters to Correspondents is introduced with a biographical sketch of a correspondent, helping us see the nature of the impulse that moved her to write. [...] By choosing to tell their story of Mansfield's life through her relationships, Davison and Kimber transfer the emphasis normally given to her terminal illness to the extraordinary range of the relations she kept alive. -- Beci Carver, University of Exeter * TLS * It's to be hugely celebrated [...] that this first volume of the new definitive collection of Mansfield's correspondence, ordered alphabetically by correspondent and accompanied by in-depth introductions for each correspondent, returns the life threefold to the old artefact of the letter: the life of the writer, the life of the person to whom she's writing, and finally the life of the times both people inhabited. [...]Accompanying details throughout of the lives of the correspondents before and beyond Mansfield's own life, will dimensionalise humanly and historically Mansfield's whole correspondence. * Ali Smith, author *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4544-3 (9781474445443)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer.
Content
Acknowledgements Preface - Ali SmithIntroduction - Claire Davison and Gerri KimberTextual Note and Abbreviations
Conrad Aiken - Biosketch by Sydney Janet KaplanElizabeth von Arnim - Biosketch by Jennifer WalkerIda Baker - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellAmy Barkas - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAnnie Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeCharlotte Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellHarold Beauchamp - Biosketch by Helen RydstrandJeanne Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellLeslie Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellVera Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeAndrew Bell - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Belloc Lowndes - Biosketch by Claire DavisonEdith Bendall - Biosketch by Moira TaylorPrincess Elizabeth Bibesco - Biosketch by Claire Davison Edmund Blunden - Biosketch by Gerri KimberGeorge C. Bowden - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Edwin J. Brady - Biosketch by Gerri KimberDorothy Brett - Biosketch by Aimee GasstonLaura Bright - Biosketch by Gerri KimberBeatrice Campbell - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrancis Carco - Biosketch by Claire DavisonDouglas Clayton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Dahlerup - Biosketch by Gerri KimberWalter De La Mare - Biosketch by Jenny McDonnellO. Raymond Drey - Biosketch by Claire DavisonJohn Drinkwater - Biosketch by Claire DavisonLulu Dyer - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Duncan Fergusson - Biosketch by Aimee GasstonJinnie Fullerton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Galsworthy - Biosketch by Bronwen CarlisleConstance Garnett - Biosketch by Claire DavisonWilliam Gerhardi - Biosketch by Claire DavisonMark Gertler - Biosketch by Chris MourantArnold Gibbons - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrederick Goodyear - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Frank Harris - Biosketch by Claire DavisonViolet Hunt - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMary Hutchinson - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAlice Jones - Biosketch by Claire DavisonHugh Jones - Biosketch by Claire Davison
Works ConsultedIndex
Conrad Aiken - Biosketch by Sydney Janet KaplanElizabeth von Arnim - Biosketch by Jennifer WalkerIda Baker - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellAmy Barkas - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAnnie Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeCharlotte Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellHarold Beauchamp - Biosketch by Helen RydstrandJeanne Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellLeslie Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellVera Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeAndrew Bell - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Belloc Lowndes - Biosketch by Claire DavisonEdith Bendall - Biosketch by Moira TaylorPrincess Elizabeth Bibesco - Biosketch by Claire Davison Edmund Blunden - Biosketch by Gerri KimberGeorge C. Bowden - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Edwin J. Brady - Biosketch by Gerri KimberDorothy Brett - Biosketch by Aimee GasstonLaura Bright - Biosketch by Gerri KimberBeatrice Campbell - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrancis Carco - Biosketch by Claire DavisonDouglas Clayton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Dahlerup - Biosketch by Gerri KimberWalter De La Mare - Biosketch by Jenny McDonnellO. Raymond Drey - Biosketch by Claire DavisonJohn Drinkwater - Biosketch by Claire DavisonLulu Dyer - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Duncan Fergusson - Biosketch by Aimee GasstonJinnie Fullerton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Galsworthy - Biosketch by Bronwen CarlisleConstance Garnett - Biosketch by Claire DavisonWilliam Gerhardi - Biosketch by Claire DavisonMark Gertler - Biosketch by Chris MourantArnold Gibbons - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrederick Goodyear - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Frank Harris - Biosketch by Claire DavisonViolet Hunt - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMary Hutchinson - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAlice Jones - Biosketch by Claire DavisonHugh Jones - Biosketch by Claire Davison
Works ConsultedIndex