This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's fiction. The resurgence of interest in Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) in recent years has grown to the extent that she is now perceived as 'the most emblematic woman writer of her time'. Mansfield researchers have been frequently frustrated by the lack of a complete edition of her fiction. There are several editions of her stories in print, but these omit many pieces not already collected and published in the volumes edited by Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry after her death, from which present 'collected' editions derive. This Edinburgh edition of her stories, published to coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of her death in 1923, is a truly complete collection of the author's fiction writing. The editors have sought to include hitherto uncollected or rarely seen stories and prose fragments as well as the instantly recognisable stories. Placed in chronological order and fully annotated with clear, concise notes, this edition undertakes a complete remapping of the author's fiction output, from her earliest childhood pieces to the pitch-perfect quality of the mature writer at the height of her craft, thereby redefining Katherine Mansfield as a writer for the twenty-first century. Key features: brings together all of Mansfield's extant fiction; refocuses critical attention on one of the most influential exponents of modernist fiction; the essential Mansfield text for individual scholars working on Mansfield studies, as well as those with a more general interest in Mansfield the writer; and, redefines Mansfield as a writer for the next generation.
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The editors of the collected fiction are unstinting in their attention to detail, dating and biography. Their efforts give us a picture of an artist discovering what it is she wants to do to be different from the rest, to find a story and a way of telling it that will be hers and hers alone. --London Review of Books
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Gerri Kimber is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University. Vincent O'Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellington, is the world's foremost Mansfield scholar and is President of the Katherine Mansfield Society.
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This is the first time that all Mansfield's fiction has been gathered together and published as she wrote it, and in chronological order. Previous collections have tended to be selective and they have often used versions of the stories edited by Katherine Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry. Several more stories came to light while the editors were researching this edition - found by a PhD student in the archives of a magazine called the Adam Review. One of them illuminates the nineteen year old Mansfield's painful relationship with the young New Zealand musician Garnett Trowell. Pregnant with his child, forbidden to see him by his parents, she married a man she didn't love and left him on her wedding night. She was then sent to Germany (alone) by her parents to have a baby which was still-born. This 'little episode' maimed Mansfield profoundly and she was never really able to tell the truth about herself to anyone, not even her second husband. She may well have contracted the tuberculosis that eventually killed her at the German spa town her mother left her in. Most of Mansfield's fiction was written against a background of financial hardship, emotional turmoil and failing health. Yet she produced some of the greatest short fiction ever written - At the Bay, The Dolls House, The Garden Party. Now we have them as she wrote them - two volumes of the familiar and the unfamiliar collected together and annotated by two remarkable Mansfield scholars - Professor Vincent O'Sullivan, who was the co-editor of Mansfield's letters, and Dr Gerri Kimber, for whom Mansfield is a life-long passion.
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