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Travel Long Haul: Catch a sense of Bliss The formative years of the short-story writer Katherine Mansfield were spent in a quiet house in Wellington, now a gently evocative museum.
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WE CAME in search of one of New Zealand's greatest writers - and
it was almost as if we really did find her. However, Katherine
Mansfield's museum is not really her house at all, at least not in
the sense that the house was the formative location of her life.
True, she lived at 25 Tinakori Road, Wellington, for five of her
childhood years, but to say that Katherine Mansfield lived in any one
particular place would be something of an exaggeration.
She was born in Wellington in 188...
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Travel: Grand tours: Life, love and laundry Great writers and their adventures in literature. This week: Katherine Mansfield opens her journal in San Remo, Italy
The Independent - London
; Successful enough to attract the venom of her near contemporary Virginia Woolf (`hard' and `shallow' was Woolf's verdict on the Mansfield oeuvre), Katherine Mansfield was also the model for Gudrun in D H Lawrence's `Women in Love'. A New Zealander by birth, she arrived in London in 1908, determined
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Katherine Mansfield
The Press
; The article "Two sides of a scholar" (June 19) I found stimulating. It highlighted the achievements of a notable New Zealand literary figure, Vincent O'Sullivan, emeritus professor of English at Victoria University. One aspect of the article I found perplexing. Mention was made of the "five" volume
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The Short Story of Katherine Mansfield
The Washington Post
; KATHERINE MANSFIELD A Secret Life By Claire Tomalin Knopf. 292 pp. $22.95 KATHERINE MANSFIELD seems to attract biographers more by the secrets in her life than by her tales. These are now like faded photos, watered down Chekhov with Dickensian flavoring. She was the rebellious daughter of a New
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"Prelude: The Life and Work of Katherine Mansfield"
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... scenes from Mansfield's writings that are playing out there is often difficult to discern. Lori Willis' minimalist sets, including maps and writings sketched on the theater's floor and walls, sets just the right mood, as do J.R. Lederle's lighting and Katherine ...
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Katherine Mansfield Awards prize money doubled.(Brief Article)
M2 Best Books
; M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The prize money for the 2004 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards has been doubled to reflect the importance of the competition. The main Katherine Mansfield Award will now be worth NZD10,000 with the Novice Writers Award worth NZD1,500 and
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The quest for katherine mansfield.(Brief Article)
World and I
; Jeffrey Meyers has published biographies of, among others, Edmund Wilson, Robert Frost, Humphrey Bogart, and Gary Cooper. He has just completed a life of George Orwell. Biography began in the Classical period with Plutarch's Parallel Lives and Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, both written in Latin
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Nora returns to the doll's house.(THE GUIDE)
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
; Byline: Deborah Smith AN abandoned doll's house carries all the melancholy of a discarded photo album. Who did it belong to? What miniature dramas were acted out within its tiny walls and can we detect a remnant of its former owner's spirit? On display in the vault at Objectspace is the doll's
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Mansfield, Katherine.(The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Biography
; The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition. Ed. Margaret Scott. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. 708 pp. $25.95. We have also developed a taste for the writer's story behind the story, for what is called 'creative process.' Mansfield's 'Notebooks' and letters provide fascinating,
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THE BOOK THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES, BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD
The Sunday Telegraph London
; In the final part of her brief life, weakened by the tuberculosis to which she would succumb in 1923, Katherine Mansfield produced this collection of gem-like short stories. Many are set amid the sprays of toi toi and bursts of fuchsia of her native New Zealand, others in England and on the French
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A mansion fit for Katherine Mansfield
Sunday Star-Times
; HOME OF THE WEEK SCULPTOR CHRIS JOHNSON works with steel and glass. He values their strength and sense of permanence. Johnson insists a home shares these same qualities. Elmwood easily passed the test when he and wife Catherine spied the immaculate Victorian homestead for sale in a newspaper. They
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