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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.
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
