The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K - Z

by Claire Davison (Editor), Gerri Kimber (Editor)

Overview

The first volume of this edition of Katherine Mansfield’s letters, correspondents A–J, is heavily weighted towards the Beauchamp family and several of her closest friends. This second volume, quite by chance, puts the emphasis far more on Mansfield’s literary and intellectual friendships especially members of the Bloomsbury group. It includes letters to Sylvia Lynd, the Hon. Bertrand Russell, Sydney and Violet Schiff, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf and Hugh Walpole, as well as those individuals who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell (herself the recipient of one of the largest number of letters in this volume) at Garsington Manor.
With over twenty new letters not published in previous editions of her letters, as well substantial revisions and additions to a number of other letters, accompanied by thoroughly researched annotations, this volume offers many new insights into Mansfield’s epistolary relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474445481
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Series:	The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield
Pages:	880
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Universityé Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsTextual Note and Abbreviations

Letters Chronology: Volume 2

Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Epistolarity - Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber

The Collected Letters K–Z

Edmond Xavier Kapp - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

‘Cousin Kate’ - Introduction by Redmer Yska

Alexander Kay - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Alfred A. Knopf - Introduction by Claire Davison

S. S. Koteliansky - Introduction by J. Lawrence Mitchell

Frieda Lawrence - Introduction by Aimée Gasston

Robert Lynd - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Sylvia Lynd - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Compton Mackenzie - Introduction by Claire Davison

Maata Mahupuku - Introduction by Anna Plumridge

Dr Ivan Manoukhin - Introduction by Claire Davison

Edward Marsh - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Elkin Mathews - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

R. B. T. Miller - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Sarah Gertrude Millin - Introduction by Claire Davison

Julian Morrell - Introduction by Claire Davison

Lady Ottoline Morrell - Introduction by C. K. Stead

Thomas and Bessie Moult - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Richard Murry - Introduction by Kathleen Jones

The New Age - Introduction by Chris Mourant

(Mary) Edna Nixon - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

A. R. Orage - Introduction by Chris Mourant

William Orton - Introduction by J. Lawrence Mitchell

Clara Palmer - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Herbert Palmer - Introduction by Claire Davison

Sylvia Payne - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

John Campbell Perkins

Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Eric Pinker - Introduction by Chris Mourant

J. B. Pinker - Introduction by Chris Mourant

Martha Putnam - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Ribnikov (‘Ribni’) - Introduction by Claire Davison

Anne Estelle Rice - Introduction by Aimée Gasston

Daniel Rider - Introduction by Claire Davison

Viscountess Rothermere - Introduction by Claire Davison

Berta Ruck - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

John Ruddick - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

The Hon. Bertrand Russell - Introduction by Claire Davison

Michael Sadleir - Introduction by Chris Mourant

Sydney Schiff - Introduction by Helen Rydstrand

Violet Schiff - Introduction by Helen Rydstrand

Martin Secker - Introduction by Claire Davison

Clement Shorter - Introduction by Jenny McDonnell

Dr Victor Sorapure - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

J. C. Squire - Introduction by Claire Davison

Lytton Strachey - Introduction by Claire Davison

Frank Swinnerton - Introduction by Claire Davison

Lilian Trench - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

R. C. Trevelyan - Introduction by Claire Davison

(Thomas) Arnold Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths

Garnet Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths

Thomas Luigi Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths

Marion Tweed - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Hugh Walpole - Introduction by Claire Davison

Sydney Waterlow - Introduction by Claire Davison

Orlo Williams - Introduction by Claire Davison

Wingley and Athenaeum - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Leonard Woolf - Introduction by Claire Davison

Virginia Woolf - Introduction by Claire Davison

Unidentified recipients - Introduction by Gerri Kimber

Omission from Volume 1

AppendixWorks ConsultedIndex

Editorial Reviews

This meticulously edited second volume of the Edinburgh Collected Letters gives us Mansfield the writer, artist and editor in her experimental prime, reflecting on her work in innovative ways that expand and deepen our sense of her oeuvre. The clustered arrangement, embracing some of the key figures in her writing life, including Ottoline Morrell, Anne Estelle Rice and Virginia Woolf, shows the leading modernist honing her self-awareness as a writer, contributing in vital ways to developing some of the techniques and ideas now understood to be signatures of modernism – rhythm, ellipsis, the porous self and the moment in time.

Elleke Boehmer