The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

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Volume 5: 1922

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Mansfield Collected Letters Series

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The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived?Mansfield's biographers, like her friends, have wondered at the seemingly extraordinary decision to ditch conventional medicine, for the bizarre choice of Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau. These letters show the clarity of mind and will that led to that decision, the courage and distress in making it, and the gaiety even once it was made. She went against what her education, her husband, and most of her friends would regard as reasonable, as she opted to spend her last months with Russian émigrés and a strange assortment of Gurdjieff disciples (which she was not). But Fontainebleau give her the space and the incentive to shake free from the intellectualism that she thought the malaise of her time, as she worked at kitchen chores, took in the details of farm life, tried to learn Russian, and attempted to reach total honesty with herself. 'If I were allowed one simple cry to God,' she wrote in one of her last letters, that cry would be I want to be REAL.'

Author Biography:

Vincent O'Sullivan was Professor of English at Victoria University, Wellington, from 1988 until his retirement in 2003, and for his last four years was also Director of the Stout Research Centre. As well as being an academic, he has worked as a journalist, and published widely as a poet, novelist, short story writer, biographer, and playwright. Margaret Scott was Manuscripts Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, where she discovered a talent for penetrating the almost illegible handwriting of Katharine Mansfield manuscripts. As well as transcribing The Collected Letters, she produced a two-volume edition of The Katharine Mansfield Notebooks. She is currently working on an edition of the diaries of the New Zealand poet, Charles Brasch.

Release date Australia

June 5th, 2008

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Edited by Margaret Scott
Edited by Vincent O'Sullivan

Pages

376

Series

Mansfield Collected Letters Series

Dimensions

162x241x34

ISBN-13

9780198183990

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3169758

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