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The Life of Katherine Mansfield

Antony Alpers

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Description:Virginia Woolf said of her, “I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.” D.H. Lawrence compared her to Dickens, and used her as the model for Gudrun in “Women in Love”. Before her tragic death from tuberculosis in 1923, when she was thirty-four, she revolutionized the English short story. She was Ketherine Masnfield, and her brief but turbulent life - as well as her literary craft - finally recieves its due in this splendid and definitive biography.There have been other books about Katherine Mansfield - by her husband, by the lifelong friend she called her “wife”, and by other writers. The basic facts are known: how she was born Katheeln Mansfield Beauchamp, a businessman’s daughter in New Zealand; how she gave early evidence of the impulsiveness, the intensity, the impatience with convention which she would pour into her later life; how she turned her back on her Colonial childhood; how she fled to London and the literary ferment beginning to rise on the Continent, in Bloomsbury, at Carsington; and how she proceeded to make a name for herself, evne in this pride of lions.Until now, however, it has not been possible to deal freely and frankly with all the events of her life - conventional mores, respect for the privacy of surviving actors in her drame, and the unavailability of crucial material prohibited it.The circumstances of her disastrous one-day marriage to George Bowden, her elopement with her girlhood friend Garnet Trowell, her influence on Virginia Woolf, her tortured friendship with D.H. Lawrence, and her final search for truth in the teachings of the Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff - all were known incompletely, if at all. But now, drawing on newly opened manuscript collections as well as on private papers and personal contacts to which he has had exclusive access, Antony Alpers has reinterpreted this vulnerable and volatile genius for our own time.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of Katherine Mansfield. To get started finding The Life of Katherine Mansfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Virginia Woolf said of her, “I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.” D.H. Lawrence compared her to Dickens, and used her as the model for Gudrun in “Women in Love”. Before her tragic death from tuberculosis in 1923, when she was thirty-four, she revolutionized the English short story. She was Ketherine Masnfield, and her brief but turbulent life - as well as her literary craft - finally recieves its due in this splendid and definitive biography.There have been other books about Katherine Mansfield - by her husband, by the lifelong friend she called her “wife”, and by other writers. The basic facts are known: how she was born Katheeln Mansfield Beauchamp, a businessman’s daughter in New Zealand; how she gave early evidence of the impulsiveness, the intensity, the impatience with convention which she would pour into her later life; how she turned her back on her Colonial childhood; how she fled to London and the literary ferment beginning to rise on the Continent, in Bloomsbury, at Carsington; and how she proceeded to make a name for herself, evne in this pride of lions.Until now, however, it has not been possible to deal freely and frankly with all the events of her life - conventional mores, respect for the privacy of surviving actors in her drame, and the unavailability of crucial material prohibited it.The circumstances of her disastrous one-day marriage to George Bowden, her elopement with her girlhood friend Garnet Trowell, her influence on Virginia Woolf, her tortured friendship with D.H. Lawrence, and her final search for truth in the teachings of the Russian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff - all were known incompletely, if at all. But now, drawing on newly opened manuscript collections as well as on private papers and personal contacts to which he has had exclusive access, Antony Alpers has reinterpreted this vulnerable and volatile genius for our own time.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of Katherine Mansfield. To get started finding The Life of Katherine Mansfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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