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  Title

  Katherine Mansfield : a secret life 1st American ed.

  Author

  Tomalin, Claire.  

  Publisher:

  Knopf,

  Pub date:

  1988.

  Pages:

  292 pages, [16] pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  0394568478

  • 0394568478
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    Central (Casselberry)	Copies	Material	Location
    B MANSFIELD	1	Book	Biography Shelving

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  Katherine Mansfield : a secret life 1st American ed.
  Tomalin, Claire.
  
  
  

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  Katherine Mansfield : a secret life 1st American ed.
  Tomalin, Claire.
  

  Personal Author:

  Tomalin, Claire.

  Title:

  Katherine Mansfield : a secret life / Claire Tomalin.

  Edition:

  1st American ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Knopf, 1988.

  Physical description:

  292 pages, [16] pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

  General Note:

  Originally published: London : Viking, 1987.

  General Note:

  "Distributed by Random House"--Title page verso.

  General Note:

  Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author.

  Contents:

  'The favourite of the gods' -- Queen's: 'My wasted, wasted early girlhood' -- New Zealand 1907: 'The suitable appropriate existence' -- London 1908: new women -- 'My wonderful, splendid husband' -- Bavaria 1909: 'Käthe Beauchamp-Bowden, Schriftstellerin' -- The new age: 'You taught me to write, you taught me to think' -- 'Make me your mistress' -- 'All I remember is sunshine and gaiety' -- 1914: 'Other people, other things' -- Cornwall 1916: 'A whole spring full of blue-bells' -- 1918: 'A great black bird' -- 'He ought not to have married' -- 'A brother one loves' -- 'A sense of being like' -- 'I am a writer first' -- Read as much love as you like into this letter' -- 'I want to work' -- 'What is going to happen to us all?'

  Summary:

  An account of the life of the gifted, beautiful, but strangely secretive writer provides a glimpse of the competitive London literary scene between 1908 and 1923 and of such literary figures as D.H. Lawrence and VIrginia Woolf.

  Held by:

  CENTRAL

  Personal subject:

  Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.

  Personal subject:

  Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (OCoLC)fst00034082

  Subject term:

  Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Authors, New Zealand. (OCoLC)fst00822242

  Genre index term:

  Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896

  Genre index term:

  Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686

  Genre index term:

  Biographies.