Synopses & Reviews
In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves--to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid." This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.
About the Author
Angela Smith is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and Director of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Stirling.
Table of Contents
"I live to write" * The little Colonial: 1888-1908 * A born Actress and Mimic: August 1908-November 1911 * The Tiger: December 1911-October 1915 * Mansfield and Modernism: November 1915-December 1918 * The Secret Self: January 1919-January 1923