Author: Cherry Hankin
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 146163623X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented. Here, juxtaposed for the first time, are 300 letters exchanged between them during their extraordinary eleven-year relationship. The letters begin in January 1912, a month after their first meeting, when both were relative newcomers to the London literary scene; the last, a letter from Murry, was written four days before Katherine died, in Fontainebleau, in January 1923. The intervening years were ones of both feverish creativity and heartbreaking frustration; of intense closeness and unassailable distance; of shared idealism and, as Katherine's illness took its inexorable hold, of mutual recognition that the glittering partnership they'd once envisaged would be cut tragically short. Whether sparkling or witty, reflective or despairing, the letters have the immediacy of conversation and the candor of the very finest epistolary writing. They illustrate wonderfully the unique personal magnetism which has become part of the Mansfield legend, and indicate, too, that posterity has perhaps judged Murry more harshly than ever she did. As Katherine herself wrote: "I feel no other lovers have walked the earth more joyfully-in spite of all."
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 9780941533768
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, probing letters during their tempestuous 11-year relationship. Their correspondence reveals Mansfield's fiercely independent spirit, as well as her intense need for undertanding from Murry from the time she met him at the home of a friend in London in 1912 until a few days before her death from tuberculosis in 1923.
Author: John Middleton Murry
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 9780091535001
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 517
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Author: Sydney Janet Kaplan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748675930
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Centred on the relationship between the personal lives of the writers John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence and the works they produced this intriguing study develops a portrait of a circle of writers who significantly influenced t
Author: Ruth Elvish Mantz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780883054338
Category : Authors, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838856161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
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Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
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Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: G. Kimber
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230307221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity.
