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Katherine Mansfield

Pioneers to Poetics

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July 1983, no. 52

There have been important publications in each of the fields of literary criticism, memoirs and biography, and history in New Zealand during the last few years. In a brief survey it is hardly possible to cover the field entirely; what I can do is to indicate what I take to be the important titles in each of these areas.

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Katherine Mansfield: The early years by Gerri Kimber

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January–February 2017, no. 388
Ann-Marie Priest reviews 'Katherine Mansfield: The early years' by Gerri Kimber

Katherine Mansfield is one of those shimmering literary figures whose life looms larger than her work. This is not because her writing lacks value: Mansfield’s spiky ...

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Katherine Mansfield: The Story Teller by Kathleen Jones

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February 2011, no. 328
Lisa Gorton reviews 'Katherine Mansfield: The Story Teller' by Kathleen Jones

Mansfield was thirty-four. Having suffered tuberculosis for years, she died after hurrying up some stairs, intending to show her husband how well she was. This was at La Prieuré, Fontainebleau, house of George Gurdjieff’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man: a sort of commune, organised around shamanic dancing, Eastern mysticism, and Gurdjieff’s compelling personality. For Mansfield, the Institute was not simply a last resort; she went there for a new beginning. In a letter to her friend Koteliansky, she wrote: ‘I mean to change my whole way of life entirely …’

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