Though MK
remained socially reserved throughout her adult life, her international fame following the publication of The Constant Nymph in 1924, and her marriage to a husband devoted to public life, gave her many social...
Literary responses
Virginia Woolf
Many habitual admirers of VW
(often those who respected her rationally socialist and feminist views) could not stomach this book—either rejecting as whimsy the framework of three fund-raisers each soliciting a guinea, or jibbing at...
Literary responses
Beatrice Webb
The Times reviewer praised the fullness, the intimacy, and the extraordinary range of this diary, its power of observation, gift of expression, and freedom from egotism.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
KEI
knew that there was a need for such a book in schools, so she sent Leonard Woolf
a proposal for the book in November 1924. He was intrigued, even though Hogarth Press
was not...
Residence
Katherine Mansfield
Back from a summer spent largely in Cornwall, Mansfield
and Murry
(after she had briefly left him once more to stay in Brett
's studio) moved into J. M. Keynes
's house in Bloomsbury.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.