Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 306 pages
This biography is the story of Katherine Mansfield, the gifted and tragic artist best known for her polished satire and frequently anthologized short stories. Acclaimed biographer Meyers uses new sources to illuminate the troubled life of one of Great Britain's most gifted female authors.
 

Contents

Childhood 18881902
1
Queens College 19031906
13
Return to New Zealand 19071908
21
Disorder and Early Sorrow 19081909
36
Orage and The New Age 19101911
53
Murry Rhythm and Bohemia 1912
61
Friendship with D H Lawrence 19131923
78
Koteliansky and Carco 19131915
105
Chelsea and Return to Bandol 19161918
149
Cornwall and Hampstead 19181919
168
Ospedaletti and Menton 19191921
186
Switzerland and Paris 19211922
218
Gurdjieff 19221923
238
Murrys Cult of Katherine
253
Notes
263
Select Bibliography
295

Leslie Bandol and Prelude 19151916
119
Garsington and Bloomsbury 19161917
130

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About the author (2002)

Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, Hemingway: Life into Art, and Gary Cooper: An American Hero, (all available from Cooper Square Press), in addition to biographies of Humphrey Bogart, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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