The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories-In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party-during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of ...
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories-In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party-during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the vast mass of material and revised much of what he included, resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal spirit.

More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious, witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and obsessed with death.

Margaret Scott is National Library research fellow at New Zealand's National Library in Wellington. She has coedited five volumes of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield.

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Patricia Hampl
Mansfield's Notebooks and letters provide fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, testimony of both. Her struggle against loneliness, and the ache of abandonment she describes during the years of illness, rise beyond personal complaints to become, in her transparent prose, models of spiritual searching. — The New York Times
Times Literary Supplement
It is only now, with the publication of Margaret Scott's complete and unselective transcription of the material bequeathed to Murry, that we can really see Mansfield, off her guard and unexpurgated, for the first time. . . . Mansfield's notebooks are remarkable, touched by a sense of the underlying pathos of things, two parts tragedy and two parts comedy.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780816642366
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication date: 11/28/2002
  • Edition description: COMPLETE E
  • Pages: 392
  • Product dimensions: 6.75 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
Acknowledgements xxiv
Abbreviations xxv
Unbound Papers 1
Enna Blake 1
A Happy Christmas Eve 2
Three 20th Century Girls 3
The Pine-tree, the Sparrows, and You and I 5
Notebook 40 7
His Ideal 7
Concerning Cornet players 8
A True Tale 9
Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht 9
Twilight 10
List of Names 10
Deutsch sentences for Conversation 11
It was a big bare house surrounded with pine trees 11
The old Inkstand 12
Friendship - 1 12
Friendship - 2 12
It was visiting afternoon in a London hospital 14
The Song of my Lady 15
Notebook 37 16
Contents List 16
Evening 17
The Sea 17
The Three Monarchs 17
Music 18
A Fragment 18
Love's Entreaty 19
I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned 19
New Years Eve 20
Unbound Papers 22
Night 22
To M 23
Battle Hymn 23
The Chief's Bombay Tiger 23
To Ping Pong 24
To a Little Child 24
In the Darkness 25
The Springtime 26
To Grace 26
Hope 26
Farewell 27
Verses of Little Q 27
Two Ideas with One Moral 28
This is my world, this room of mine 28
Notebook 29, Part 1 30
She 30
Books I have read 31
Dear old George 32
Unbound Papers 33
Your Birthday 33
Dear friend, when back to Canada you go 35
One Day 35
Les Deux Etrangeres 38
What, think you, causes me truest Joy 40
The Students' Room 40
Notebook 29, Part 2 41
My Potplants 41
"I was never happy," Huia said ... 43
Memories 44
French 45
Notebook 1 48
Juliet 48
The little boy went to sleep in the car 69
An Attempt 69
The sunlight shone in golden beams 70
A Young Ladies Version of The Cards 71
On waking next morning ... 71
What You Please 71
The Tale of the Three 73
Away beyond the line of the dark houses ... 74
Summer Idylle 1906 75
To those who can understand her 77
There are a more or less large number of weak minded looking females ... 77
I walk along the broad almost deserted street 78
At Sea 78
I constantly am hearing 80
The Child of the Sea 81
When NZ is more artificial ... 81
Twilight walkers with sand ... 82
1 drawers 82
Association of ideas 82
Fair Water Nymph, I pray of you 83
I am full of Ideas, tonight 84
Oh, do let me write something really good ... 85
Yvonne walked slowly through the gardens 85
Out here it is the Summer time 86
Macdowell 87
The Man, the Monkey and the Mask 88
Poems of the Apostle of Youth 88
The long day pulsed slowly through 88
Cigarettes 89
Ah! never more again 90
Lo I am standing the test 90
Notebook 29, Part 3 92
In the Tropics 92
Unbound Papers 93
A Common Ballad 93
Notebook 39 94
Quotations 94
Comme une fleur que le veut chasse 99
Selections from Dorian Gray 99
Diary Entries 99
Beloved - tho' I do not see you ... 104
She unpacked her box and then went into the sitting room ... 104
Diary Entries 106
My dear Mr Trowell 109
Diary Entries 109
Vignette - They are a ridiculous company ... 110
Diary Entries 111
The Story of Pearl Button 112
Expenses 113
Unbound Papers 114
The Green Tree 114
Notebook 29, Part 4 119
Night came swiftly 119
By dint of hiding from others ... 120
This is just a little song 121
I can write nothing at all 121
O Mother Mine, O mother mine 121
In the room next to mine a little boy is ill 121
Vignette - I groped my way up the dark stairs ... 121
The Growing of Wings 122
Shadow children thin & small 122
There is, I think, Mr Trowell 123
I have a little garden plot 123
Unbound Papers 124
She & the Boy 124
The Thoughtful Child 126
It is evening, and very cold 129
Vignette - Westminster Cathedral 130
Prose 131
Notebook 2 135
Urewera Camping Trip 135
Youth 150
Diary Entries 150
Mein lieber Freund 153
Charles Dickens 1812 153
Juliette Delacour 154
The Unexpected Must Happen 155
Great white hungry lions ... 156
Thursday. I am at the sea ... 156
Evening 157
Vignette - Summer in Winter 158
Vignette - This is Angelica 158
In the pocket of an old coat ... 159
Balzac 159
Leves Amores 160
Rewa felt that she had entered ... 161
In the train 162
I could find no rest 163
In the train to Harwich 164
In this room 164
Quotations on Art 164
I wish indeed that I had a fountain pen 166
Mrs Webber's recipe 166
Maori language 166
Account 167
Unbound Papers 168
Dear my Mother 168
Vignette - In the Botanical Gardens 170
In a Cafe 171
In Summer 174
L'Incendie 177
Newberry Notebook 1 178
Song By The Window Before Bed 178
The Funeral 179
A Little Boy's Dream 179
Winter Song 180
On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary 180
Song of the Little White Girl 180
A Few Rules for Beginners 181
A Day in Bed 181
Opposites 182
Song of Karen the Dancing Child 183
A Joyful Song of Five! 183
The Candle Fairy 184
The Last Thing 185
The Quarrel 185
A Song for Our Real Children 185
Grown-up Talks 186
You won't understand this - 'cause you're a Boy 186
The Lonesome Child 186
Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child 187
Autumn Song 188
Spring Wind in London 188
A Fairy Tale 189
The Yellow Chrysanthemum 191
Vignette - By the Sea 193
Unbound Papers 195
Study: The Death of a Rose 195
Vignette - Through the Autumn Afternoon ... 195
On the Sea Shore 196
A Sad Truth 197
A Song of Summer 197
The Winter Fire 197
The Lilac Tree 199
In the Church 199
The Trio 199
Vignette - I look out through the window 200
Revelation 201
Red as the wine of forgotten ages 202
October 202
Youth and Age 203
The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations 204
Notebook 29, Part 5 207
And through the wood he lightly came 207
Unbound Papers 208
I am quite happy for you see 208
Out to the glow of sunset, brother 208
Notebook 8 210
Diary Entries 210
And through the wood he lightly came 213
Music 213
And which do I love most my dear 214
Out in the fog stained, mud stained street they stand 215
Song of the Camellia Blossoms 216
Cupid one day grew tired ... 216
Sleepy eyes and a poisonous voice 217
The Last Lover 219
Scarlet Tulips 219
Born in New Zealand in Wellington ... 220
It was the freedom of those days ... 224
Song of the Cabbage Tree 225
Diary Entries 225
And Mr Wells has got a play upon the English stage 226
Ooh er there's the pond ... 226
Unbound Papers 227
A.C.F. Letter 227
Being the List of Virtues & Vices ... 228
His Sister's Keeper 228
Dearest, There is so much to tell you of ... 234
The Grandmother 235
The Sea Child 235
Just as she was making some tea ... 236
Floryan Nachdenklich 236
Maata 237
Newberry Notebook 2 248
Maata 248
Young Country 261
Rose Eagle 263
Notebook 33 265
Weekly Account 265
Pudding Recipes 272
Notebook 19 274
William (P.G.) is very well 274
I am going to read Goethe 275
I went into Jack's room ... 275
Notebook 23 277
K.T. and her sister were walking ... 277
The Toothache Sunday 278
The Last Friday 279
Notebook 18 280
Diary Entries 280
Unbound Papers 286
Diary Entries 286
The Meeting 287
These be two 288
Most merciful God 288
Deaf House Agent 289
Toujours fatiguee Madame 289
Notebook 10 290
Shakespeare 290
I simply cannot believe ... 296
Accounts 296
I wish I could have a second family ... 297
She lay in bed ... 297
Today is Sunday 299
Unbound Papers 300
The brilliant sunny weather, & spring weather 300
Le pele mele 305
One night when Jack was with Goodyear ... 305
Account 306
The only one who sang ill was the cripple 306
Index 307
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