Katherine Mansfield : a secret life /

An account of the life of the gifted, beautiful, but strangely secretive writer provides a glimpse of the competitive London literary scene between 1908 and 1923 and of such literary figures as D.H. Lawrence and VIrginia Woolf. This is a highly readable portrait of the writer whose life and work fig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomalin, Claire
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1988.
Edition:1st American ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'The favourite of the gods'
  • Queen's: 'My wasted, wasted early girlhood'
  • New Zealand 1907: 'The suitable appropriate existence'
  • London 1908: new women
  • 'My wonderful, splendid husband'
  • Bavaria 1909: 'Käthe Beauchamp-Bowden, Schriftstellerin'
  • The new age: 'You taught me to write, you taught me to think'
  • 'Make me your mistress'
  • 'All I remember is sunshine and gaiety'
  • 1914: 'Other people, other things'
  • Cornwall 1916: 'A whole spring full of blue-bells'
  • 1918: 'A great black bird'
  • 'He ought not to have married'
  • 'A brother one loves'
  • 'A sense of being like'
  • 'I am a writer first'
  • Read as much love as you like into this letter'
  • 'I want to work'
  • 'What is going to happen to us all?'