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Murry - and his relationship with three further wives - as he manipulated the posthumous publication of Mansfield's unpublished work.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…mehr
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Murry - and his relationship with three further wives - as he manipulated the posthumous publication of Mansfield's unpublished work.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.
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.
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.
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