Galya Diment - Katherine Mansfield and Russia

Katherine Mansfield and Russia

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 Editors

Dr Kathryn Simpson, Cardiff Metropolitan University UK

Dr Melinda Harvey, Monash University, Australia

Editorial Assistant

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

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 Russia

Edited by
Galya Diment, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin

Editorial Assistant Aimee Gasston

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The right of Galya Diment, 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).

The editors would like to extend particular thanks to the judging panel for this years Katherine Mansfield Society essay prize: Dr Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford, UK, Dr Joanna Woods, author of Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield, and Professor Claire Davison, Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. The winning essay by Professor David Rampton is featured in this volume.

The editors would also like to thank the following organisations and individuals: the Saratov Radishchev State Art Museum, Russia, for permission to reproduce B. M. Kustodievs Frosty Day (1913), on our front cover; Oxford University Press, for permission to reproduce material from vol. 5 of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Vincent OSullivan and Margaret Scott; Roger Lipsey, for facilitating our use of the rare images of G. I. Gurdjieff and his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau-Avon belonging to the Gurdjieff Foundation in New York who kindly gave permission for their use in this volume, as well as the image of A. R. Orage, from the collection of Martha Welch de Llosa; Bernard Bosque, for allowing us to reproduce images of the Prieur from his extensive Katherine Mansfield archive; the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin for permission to use material from the Ruth Elvish Mantz archive; the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, for permission to use manuscript material in their archives; Fiona Oliver and the Turnbull Library Record, for permission to reproduce a part of Gerri Kimbers essay; Caroline White, for permission to quote from Olive Garnetts unpublished diaries.

Unless otherwise indicated, all references to Katherine Mansfields works are to the following editions and abbreviated thus:

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, 15

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

Notebooks, 1 or 2

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks