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Katherine Mansfield's astute eye for power imbalances, including those that are gendered, is apparent across her fiction. Her working life was also fraught with the types of material needs set out by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, published after Mansfield's death in 1929. Although the young Mansfield decided she 'could not be a suffragette' (in a letter of 17 September 1908 to Garnet Trowell), her work often addresses social injustices with portrayals of characters who are hemmed in by circumstance and reaching toward a sense of personal freedom and authenticity. This volume comprises a number of essays by Mansfield specialists on the theme of 'Katherine Mansfield's Women', in addition to a diverse range of creative writing and a reassessment of J. D. Fergusson's enigmatic portrait of a woman, titled Poise. By looking at the place of women in both her personal writings and fiction, it explores the textual and cultural aspects of Katherine Mansfield and the female experience in all its contexts.

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Author:   Aimée Gasston ,  Gerri Kimber (Visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Northampton)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399550871

ISBN 10:   139955087
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   31 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Gerri Kimber CRITICISM Katherine Mansfield’s Women: ‘Ninon de Longclothes’ John Wood ‘There was nowhere’: Literary Women and Contingent Identity in the Modernist Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and May Sinclair Claire Drewery Exquisite Wilds and Small Enchantments: Mansfield, Women, Nature and Art Rishona Zimring Correspondence: Colette and Katherine Mansfield Chris Mourant Light and Legacy: Katherine Mansfield and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Erika Baldt ‘Here is safety for us to grow’: Katherine Mansfield, Simone de Beauvoir and Love Beyond the Family Luca Pinelli Women’s Experience of Emotion: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Taking the Veil’ and ‘A Dill Pickle’ Gwenda Koo Secret Selves and Shadowy Others: Divisive Femininity in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and ‘A Cup of Tea’ Anna Hoovler Marginalised Women in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Israel Zangwill Martin Griffiths The Ecofeminist Consciousness of Katherine Mansfield and Xiao Hong Qiong Jia CREATIVE WRITING Creative Responses ‘Rare, rare joy’: Performing Mansfield Amelia McBride Baker ‘Journey from the Flatlands’ Michaela Anchan ‘Coucou’ Eden Carter Wood Poetry ‘Carlotta’s Song’ Orion Foote ‘When I First Met You’ Marcella Fratta CRITICAL MISCELLANY J. D. Fergusson’s Poise Revisited John Wood REVIEW ESSAY The Work (Fortunately) Never Done Janka Kascakova Notes on Contributors Index

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Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25).

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