Katherine Mansfield

WRITE YOUR TRUTH!

Because no-one else can write it quite like you “I don’t want to find out if this is real consumption, perhaps it’s going to gallop—who knows?—and I shan’t have my work written. That’s what matters. How unbearable it would be to die—leave ‘scraps,’ ‘bits’ . . . nothing real finished.” When Katherine Mansfield wrote this, sheContinue reading “WRITE YOUR TRUTH!”

Katherine Mansfield: Brief Life Long Legacy

For my birthday, a kind friend gave me a voucher for any book from Persephone Books. This is a brilliant book shop/publisher which, and I’m quoting now from their website, “reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction, mostly by women writers and mostly mid-twentieth century. All of our 143 books are intelligent, thought-provoking and beautifully written andContinue reading “Katherine Mansfield: Brief Life Long Legacy”

Katherine Mansfield

October is the birth month of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) a modernist short story writer born to a socially prominent family in New Zealand. Her real name was Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp and it is telling that she chose to change her name and rid herself of some of the upper class trappings of the family toContinue reading “Katherine Mansfield”