Gerri Kimber - Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

KATHERINE MANSFIELD STUDIES

Katherine Mansfield Studies is the peer-reviewed, annual publication of the Katherine Mansfield Society. It offers opportunities for collaborations among the significant numbers of researchers with interests in modernism in literature and the arts, as well as those in postcolonial studies. Because Mansfield is a writer who has inspired successors from Elizabeth Bowen to Ali Smith, as well as numerous artists in other media, Katherine Mansfield Studies encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and also allows for a proportion of creative submissions.

Series Editor

Dr Delia da Sousa Correa, The Open University, UK

Editors

Dr Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK
Professor Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA

Reviews Editor

Dr Kathryn Simpson, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

Editorial Assistant

Dr Aimee Gasston, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

International Advisory Board

Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford, UK

Peter Brooker, University of Sussex, UK

Stuart N. Clarke, Virginia Woolf Society of GreatBritain, UK

Robert Fraser, Open University, UK

Kirsty Gunn, University of Dundee, UK

Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, UK

Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK

Anna Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand

Kathleen Jones, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, UK

Sydney Janet Kaplan, University of Washington, USA

Anne Mounic, Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris3, France

Vincent OSullivan, Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand

Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, Universit Lumire-Lyon 2,France

Sarah Sandley, Honorary Chair, Katherine MansfieldSociety, New Zealand

Ali Smith, author

Angela Smith, University of Stirling, UK

C. K. Stead, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK

KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY

Patron

Dame Jacqueline Wilson

Honorary President

Emeritus Professor Vincent OSullivan, DCNZM

Honorary Vice-Presidents

Emeritus Professor Angela Smith

Emeritus Professor C. K. Stead, ONZ, CBE, FRSL

Honorary Advisory Chair

Dr Sarah Sandley

COMMITTEE

Chair

Dr Gerri Kimber

Vice-Chair

Professor Janet Wilson

Membership Secretary

Professor Todd Martin

Treasurer

Ralph Kimber

New Zealand Treasurer

Kevin Ireland

Secretary

Dr Sarah Ailwood

Assistant Secretary

Dr Helen Rydstrand

Chair of Katherine Mansfield Studies Advisory Board

Dr Delia Da Sousa Correa

Newsletter Editor

Dr Martin Griffiths

Marketing Secretary

Dr Jessica Gildersleeve

Conference Committee Chair

Professor Gina Wisker

Postgraduate Representative

Joe Williams

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Edited by
Christine Froula, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin

Editorial Assistant
Aimee Gasston

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editorial matter and organisation Christine Froula, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin, 2018

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The right of Christine Froula, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).

We editors extend our warm thanks to the judging panel for this years Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize: Stuart N. Clarke, chief editor of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin published by the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, and co-editor of Virginia Woolfs Essays; Christine Reynier, professor of British literature at the Universit Paul Valry Montpellier, France, founder of the Socit dEtudes Woolfiennes, and director of the research group EMMA (Etudes Montpelliraines du Monde Anglophone); and Kathryn Simpson, senior lecturer in English literature and Programmes Director for English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and co-editor with Melissa Harvey of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 86 (201415), a special issue on Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Their expertise, fine judgement, and generous, thorough engagement with the new scholarship that the prize competition attracts were a great help to us and to all the entrants in revising their work, and we are happily in their debt. Karina Jakubowiczs prize essay, A Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew Gardens, appears in this volume.

We thank the Estate of Vanessa Bell and its executor, Henrietta Garnett, as well as the owner, Bryan Ferry, for permission to reproduce Vanessa Bells painting The Other Room on our cover; the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf for permission to adapt Woolfs short story Moments of Being: Slaters Pins Have No Points to dramatic form; the Ottoline Morrell Estate for permission to quote from the memoirs and manuscripts of Lady Ottoline Morrell; and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, and especially curator Fiona Oliver, for permission to use the 1917 photograph of Mansfield as our frontispiece as well as to quote from its manuscript collection.

Unless otherwise indicated, all references to Katherine Mansfields and Virginia Woolfs works are to the editions listed below and abbreviated as follows. Diaries, journals, letters, and notebooks are quoted verbatim without the use of editorial [sic].

CW1 and CW2

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield: Vols 1 and 2 The Collected Fiction, ed. Gerri Kimber and Vincent OSullivan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

CW3

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield: Vol. 3 The Poetry and Critical Writings, ed. Gerri Kimber and Angela Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014)

CW4

The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield: Vol. 4 The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield, including Miscellaneous Works, ed. Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016)

Letters

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, 5 vols, ed. Vincent OSullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 19842008)

Notebooks

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks