Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years - by Gerri Kimber (Paperback)
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- Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfield's childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a writer.
- About the Author: Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies.
- 272 Pages
- Literary Collections, letters
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The first biography of Katherine Mansfield's early years since 1933.Book Synopsis
Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfield's childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a writer. The biography draws extensively on previously unused archive material, including the research papers assembled by Ruth Elvish Mantz for her 1933 biography of Mansfield, detailed reminiscences of former school friends and acquaintances, Mansfield's autograph book, birthday book, her early letters, notebooks and family papers. Using this rich seam of material, Gerri Kimber explores Mansfield's home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and her travels through the volcanic North Island of New Zealand and examines her earliest published stories which appeared in school magazines. What emerges is a picture of a feisty, mischievous, young girl and an expressive, non-conformist teenager: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who became Katherine Mansfield, the famous modernist writer.From the Back Cover
'Gerri Kimber is to be congratulated on her meticulous research: her illuminating, elegantly written account of Katherine Mansfield's early years will give scholars and literary enthusiasts alike far greater understanding and appreciation of Mansfield's mature work.' Professor Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Patron of the Katherine Mansfield Society A new biography of Katherine Mansfield's formative years illustrated with photographs never published before Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfield's childhood and teenage years to her development as a writer and offers unique insights into her New Zealand stories. Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfield's former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, Mansfield's autograph book, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfield's home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and reveals the effect Mansfield's experiences had on her earliest stories. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a feisty and imaginative young girl who would turn into an expressive, non-conformist adolescent: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who would become Katherine Mansfield, the celebrated modernist writer. Illustrated with 120 photographs. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She devised and is Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16). Cover image: Katherine Mansfield in Brussels, 1906. Ref: 1/2-162827-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-0-7486-8145-7 BarcodeReview Quotes
[A] shrewdly sympathetic account of Mansfield's early years.[A] sensitive portrait of a vital, contrary young woman, still locked in a love-hate relationship with the country and family which she would come to celebrate in fiction.--Elizabeth Lowry "Times Literary Supplement"
Gerri Kimber is to be congratulated on her meticulous research: her illuminating, elegantly written account of Katherine Mansfield's early years will give scholars and literary enthusiasts alike far greater understanding and appreciation of Mansfield's mature work.--Professor Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Patron of the Katherine Mansfield Society
The details and research covered by Gerri, make the character of Katherine come alive. Just reading the many snippets that are contained in this book will certainly promote an interest in Katherine Mansfield, and place her name among those great writers in history.-- "Blue Wolf Reviews"
This is surely a book of which Mansfield would have approved...her meticulous work navigates easily between the macro- and microscopic.--Aimee Gasston "New Zealand Studies Network"
About the Author
Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Letters
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Gerri Kimber
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2026
TCIN: 1005499564
UPC: 9781399560276
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-7209
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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