
The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 3
Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 8. November 2023
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-1-4744-4552-8 (ISBN)
Description
Unlike the first two volumes of this new edition of Katherine Mansfield's letters, which encompassed a dazzling variety of correspondents, this third volume focuses exclusively on letters to John Middleton Murry, chronologically arranged, from the day when he first became her lodger in 1912 through to the week after the Armistice in November 1918, when they were newly married. It is no exaggeration to say that over the course of these six years, their entire world was turned upside down. By the time the volume closes, they are married but already increasingly estranged; they have both become professional writers but grapple with increasing economic precarity; Europe lies ravaged by war; and the devastating diagnosis of tuberculosis has been pronounced, not, ironically, for Murry whose fragile health had preoccupied them for two years, but for Mansfield herself. This volume of letters documents the whole spectrum of changes, against a vivid historical and socio-cultural backcloth and contains entirely new, insightful and extensive annotations. A second volume of letters between the pair completes the edition.
Reviews / Votes
An essential new resource for Mansfield scholars and readers alike, focusing on the most substantial and revealing of her correspondences, with John Middleton Murry, over six pivotal years both for them and the world at large. Wonderful new notes, fresh transcriptions and close attention to the latest scholarship open up exciting and important new areas of connection and enquiry into this still undervalued great Modernist writer. -- Claire Harman, author of All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything The editors have clearly worked tirelessly to extend our knowledge of Mansfield, as their explanatory notes to every letter-brimming with extensive contextual research-bear witness; -- Stephen Barkway * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
774 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4552-8 (9781474445528)
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Additional editions

Claire Davison | Gerri Kimber
Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 3
Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
€180.99
Available for download

Claire Davison | Gerri Kimber
Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 3
Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912-1918
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
€180.99
Available for download
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.
Editor
Professor of Modernist StudiesUniversite Sorbonne Nouvelle
Visiting Professor in the Department of EnglishUniversity of Northampton
Content
AcknowledgementsTextual Note and Abbreviations
Letters Chronology: Volume 3
Editors' Preface, Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber
Introduction to John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), Sydney Janet Kaplan
Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1912-1918
Works ConsultedIndex
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Letters Chronology: Volume 3
Editors' Preface, Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber
Introduction to John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), Sydney Janet Kaplan
Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1912-1918
Works ConsultedIndex
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