Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Katherine Mansfield
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Standard Name: Mansfield, Katherine
Birth Name: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
Nickname: Wig
Nickname: Kissienka
Married Name: Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Self-constructed Name: Katherine Mansfield
Pseudonym: Katherine Mansfield
Pseudonym: K. M.
Pseudonym: Boris Petrovsky
KM
's life was short and much of her writing experimental or oriented towards earning. Though contemporary reviewers sometimes condescended to her youth, gender, and magazine publication, she is now seen as one of our great modernists, her innovations so familiar as to be unnoticeable.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6.
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As well as one of the most interesting and original short-story writers of the Modernist movement, she was a significant letter-writer and diarist. Her poetry, too, is of interest. Claire Tomalin remarked that her diary in particular has made her a cult figure for young women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
"Katherine Mansfield, in profile" by Bettmann,1900-01-02.Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/katherine-mansfield-british-writer-photograph-news-photo/514882402.
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wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson
, whom she liked...
Occupation
Dorothy Brett
After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...
Publishing
Dorothy Brett
The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...
Publishing
Enid Bagnold
While working for Frank Harris
on Hearth and Home in 1912-13, EB
wrote various dreadful articles (as she later put it)
DW
must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first...
Reception
Rhoda Broughton
In a lamentable
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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article on the death of Virginia Woolf
, Hugh Walpole
accused literary ladies of acting like priestesses engaged in throwing fragrant incense on their own altars. The first name he mentions...
Reception
Romer Wilson
RW
's novels, tackling the complex philosophical and social issues that faced people in European countries in the years after the Great War, have been largely, if not entirely, forgotten. Her death at thirty-nine years...
Reception
Barbara Pym
Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the...
She was excited by her first experience of the south, and called Cambridge a city of light.
qtd. in
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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As a teacher in London, she lived first at 164 Engadine Street in Southfields, south-west London...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room departs sharply from her two earlier novels in both its method and its subject. Leonard Woolf
felt on first reading it that Virginia's characters were ghosts or puppets. It is fragmentary, like...
Textual Features
Angela Carter
It includes work by Katherine Mansfield
, Leonora Carrington
, Elizabeth Jolley
, Jamaica Kincaid
, and Carter herself. She carefully avoided identifying bad girls with sexual profligates, but looked for a certain cussedness, a bloodymindedness..
qtd. in
Laws-Wall, Lydia. “One of a kind”. Mslexia, No. 48, Jan. 2011, p. 53.
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Textual Features
Enid Bagnold
Eccentric Mrs St Maugham (owner of the garden on cold and grudging chalk soil, whose poor growing qualities are the play's central symbol) takes on Miss Madrigal as governess to her grand-daughter, Laurel, precisely because...
