Description:
A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence
Provides accurate transcriptions that shed new light on the everyday, intimate world of Mansfield as a letter-writerOrganised A-Z, which foregrounds the lives and personalities of her correspondents, along with the various self-fictionalising games that the letter-writer playedShowcases letters and sections of letters that have never previously been publishedProvides meticulous explanatory notes and rich contextual informationOffers extensive attention to the cultural and socio-political context of the correspondenceFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life. A detailed introduction, together with biographical portraits for each correspondent, enhance the cultural and socio-historical context, while the letters themselves offer a detailed exposé of Mansfield's life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of war and disease, to nature and the environment and fashions and food. The volume also reveals the intimacies of some of Mansfield's most prized friendships.Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: Each section of Davison and Kimber's richly researched new Letters to Correspondents is introduced with a biographical sketch of a correspondent, helping us see the nature of the impulse that moved her to write. [...] By choosing to tell their story of Mansfield's life through her relationships, Davison and Kimber transfer the emphasis normally given to her terminal illness to the extraordinary range of the relations she kept alive.--Beci Carver, University of Exeter "TLS"