Kathleen Jones

Katherine Mansfield

The Story-Teller

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Produktbeschreibung

Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a captivating drama of this fragile yet feisty author: her life, loves and passion for writing. The story takes us beyond Mansfield's death in 1923 to explore the life of her husband, John Middleton Murry - and his relationship with three further wives - as he manipulated the posthumous publication of Mansfield's unpublished work. In this vivid portrayal of one of the world's foremost short story writers, the first new biography for a quarter of a century, Kathleen Jones crafts an intriguing narrative of Katherine Mansfield's relationships, illnesses and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 951g
• ISBN-13: 9780748643547
• ISBN-10: 0748643540
• Artikelnr.: 32712838

Autorenporträt

Born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, Kathleen Jones read law and then English Literature at university before specialising in early women writers - work that culminated in A Glorious Fame, the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. She spent several years in Africa and the Middle East - where she worked in English broadcasting - before returning home. Her published work includes radio journalism, articles for magazines and newspapers, short fiction and eleven books - a mixture of biography, general non-fiction and poetry. Her biographies include: - A Passionate Sisterhood (Virago) - an account of the lives of the women who lived with the 'lake poets', which Sue Limb described as 'a fascinating, marvellous, utterly absorbing book . . . the stuff your English teacher never told you.': Learning not to be First, a life of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (OUP) which was Doris Lessing's 'book of the year', and a biography of Catherine Cookson (Time Warner). Kathleen lives in Cumbria where she writes full time. She has taught creative writing in a number of colleges and universities and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lancaster University. Further information at: www.kathleenjones.co.uk

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I-Leaving All Fair
1 Fontainebleau
2 The Husband's Story
3 Ida's Story; Part II-Wanted: A New World
4 'The Wizard London'
5 Freedom and Experience
6 The Lost Child
7 Coming of Age in Bavaria
8 In Search of Katherine Mansfield
9 'The Model Boys-will-be-boys Pseudo Intellectual Magazine'; Part III-The Two Katherines
10 Violet
11 The Failure of Love; Part IV
12 Tig and Wig
13 Rananim
14 Prelude
15 The 'Blooms Berries'; Part V-Betty
16 In Limbo
17 'The Last Hell'; Part IV-The Dark Katherine
18 Facing Oblivion
19 At the Bottom of the Sea
20 The Perfect Friend
21 'A Writer First and a Woman After'; Part VII-A Religion of Love
22 Keeping Faith; Part VIII-'The Levantine Psychic Shark'
23 The Soul's Desperate Choice
24 'A Child of the Sun'; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.