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Katherine Mansfield
Jeffrey Meyers
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Description for Katherine Mansfield
Paperback. Meyers illuminates the brief and troubled life of the talented British short-story writer, and reveals the inspirations for her frequently-anthologized tales. Num Pages: 344 pages, 29. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a German Pension, and numerous anthologies. Biographies appearing after her death idealized her, but Meyers sets the record straight in his assessment of the author's life and career, revealing a woman with a self-destructive disdain for convention and respectability. Born and raised in New Zealand, Mansfield threw herself into several love affairs with men and women before ... Read more
The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a German Pension, and numerous anthologies. Biographies appearing after her death idealized her, but Meyers sets the record straight in his assessment of the author's life and career, revealing a woman with a self-destructive disdain for convention and respectability. Born and raised in New Zealand, Mansfield threw herself into several love affairs with men and women before ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780815411970
SKU
V9780815411970
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About Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, Hemingway: Life into Art, and Gary Cooper: An American Hero, (all available from Cooper Square Press), in addition to biographies of Humphrey Bogart, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, and George ... Read more
Reviews for Katherine Mansfield
Rich in minor portraits of the 'underworld' where talent abounded…. Meyers is especially lively and penetrating on Mansfield's changing relations with [D. H. and Frieda] Lawrence and the well-known outbursts of Lawrence's rages and returns to affection.
V. S. Pritchett
The New Yorker
The chief strength of Dr. Meyers's valuable book… is the panoramic view that he ... Read more
V. S. Pritchett
The New Yorker
The chief strength of Dr. Meyers's valuable book… is the panoramic view that he ... Read more