Katherine Mansfield (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Claire Tomalin
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1888-1923
- Setting: New Zealand, England, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, Harold Beauchamp, Annie Beauchamp, Ida Constance Baker, Garnet Trowell, George Bowden, John Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell, A. R. Orage
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Friendship, 1910’s, 1920’s, Pregnancy, Sick persons, Diseases, 1900’s
- Locales: Europe, England, New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield lived only thirty-four years and in that short time produced but a modest body of work, mostly short fiction. Normally, such circumstances would almost guarantee obscurity, since very few fiction writers have been able to establish reputations without at least one significant novel. (Edgar Allan Poe and Anton Chekhov are among Mansfield's few peers in this regard.) This being the case, it is particularly remarkable that Claire Tomalin is the third biographer in a decade to chronicle the short, tragic life of Katherine Mansfield. Jeffrey Meyers’ Katherine...
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