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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Katherine Mansfield: the Early Years
Author: KIMBER GERRI
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2016
Imprint: EDINBURGH UNI PRESS
Price: $70.00
Publishing status: Active
A new biography of Katherine Mansfields formative years illustrated with photographs never published before.
Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfields life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfields childhood and adolescent years to her development as a writer and offers unique insights into her New Zealand stories.
Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfields former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, personal papers, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfields home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and reveals the effect Mansfields experiences had on her earliest stories. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a feisty and imaginative young girl who would turn into an expressive, non-conformist adolescent: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who would become Katherine Mansfield, the celebrated modernist writer.
Illustrated with more than 120 photographs.
ISBN: 9780748681457
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm