Kimber, G. (2015) Katherine Mansfield: Bloomsbury relationships and connections. Invited Presentation presented to: University of Buckingham Research Seminar, University of Buckingham, 18 February 2015. (Unpublished)
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Presentation) |
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| Abstract: | This paper will explore the relationships and connections between Katherine Mansfield and various people connected to the Bloomsbury group. In particular, I will focus on D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and S.S. Koteliansky. Mansfield and her husband John Middleton Murry, like D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda, were never really part of ‘Bloomsbury’ proper. Mansfield was a colonial with a father in trade, albeit Chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and a Knight of the Realm by 1923. Murry was a scholarship boy from very lower middle class Peckham, and Lawrence’s father had been a miner. But being literary, and bohemian, their lives inevitably crossed with the ‘Blooms Berries’, as Mansfield called them, and friendships were formed – and broken. By the time Mansfield had met Woolf at the end of 1916 and the two writers started meeting regularly, Mansfield was already ill, though unaware she had tuberculosis until 1918. As a result of her illness, she was hardly ever in London after 1918, and inevitably links and friendships dwindled as her health deteriorated and her search for a cure became ever more desperate. However, some early friendships and connections would prove important, not just to the individuals involved, but, more importantly, to twentieth-century literary history, as I shall demonstrate. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature |
| Creators: | Kimber, Gerri |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 18 February 2015 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | University of Buckingham Research Seminar |
| Event Dates: | 18 February 2015 |
| Event Location: | University of Buckingham |
| Event Type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7313 |
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