This selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence - from her first schoolgirl exchanges of 1903 to the last letters from the Gurdjieff Institute of Fontainebleau 20 years later - conveys her vivid and restless personality throughout a life that has become almost legendary for its vivacity and courage. It presents the voice of a new kind of 20th-century woman, in an erratic but determined movement towards self-definition. The selection draws from the five volumes of Mansfield's "Collected Letters", and covers the range of her epistolary styles. Many of the letters are to John Middleton Murry, a moving record of what she called "that utterly intense love"; others are to such friends as Lady Ottoline Morrell and S.S.Koteliansky, the painters Anne Estelle Drey and Dorothy Brett, her own family, literary friends and chance acquaintances.
- ISBN10 0192820524
- ISBN13 9780192820525
- Publish Date 1 April 1990 (first published 1 October 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 May 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English