THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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Mansfield, Katherine ___ 1888-1923
___ British ___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Kathleen Beauchamp was born in
Wellington, New Zealand, but when only 15 went to study at Queen's College,
London. After returning to New Zealand in 1906, she took up the cello, but
her father, a banker, refused to allow her to turn professional. Instead,
she studied typing and bookkeeping at Wellington Technical College. A friend
of the family eventually persuaded Mr Beauchamp to grant Kathleen an allowance
of £100 a year, so she could return to London. She married George
Brown in 1909, but separated from him soon after the wedding, and then had
an affair with Garnett Trowell, a musician. She travelled to Germany, where
she suffered a miscarriage. On returning to London in 1910, she devoted
herself to writing short stories, the first of which appeared in a collection
called 'In a German Pension'. She also contributed to publications such
as 'The Blue Review' edited by John Middleton Murry. She travelled to France
several times, where she met her brother who died during the war. Thereafter,
Mansfield wrote more about New Zealand and her family, although she never
returned to her native land. Mansfield and Murry, who she married in 1918,
were closely associated with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda. Mansfield,
who was suffering from a sexually-transmitted disease as well as tuberculosis,
died of a pulmonary haemorrhage while at a Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau.
Murry published four volumes of her journals and notes, but these were edited
with a strong bias, at least according to Mary Scott who re-edited them
in the 1980s.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1904-1922 ___ domestic literary
love/sex self social health people Germany France
WEB TEXT LINKS
about
her writing
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
National
Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library ___ possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |