Description:
By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period.
Brief description: Isobel Maddison is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, where she is a College Lecturer and the Director of Studies in English. She works primarily on female modernism and on the connections between modernism and popular fiction. Isobel has published on Dorothy Richardson and Katherine Mansfield, and is the author of Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden (2013), the first full length treatment of this author, plus several essays on this writer. Isobel is President of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society.