Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of
short stories -- In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party
-- during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of
modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from
tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters
were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in
four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties
in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the
vast mass of material and revised much of what he included,
resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal
spirit.
More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges
in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated
edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed
by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of
letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished
stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists
offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was
ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious,
witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and
obsessed with death.
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