Exciting discovery of previously unknown Katherine Mansfield manuscripts at the Newberry Library
Kimber, G. (2015) Exciting discovery of previously unknown Katherine Mansfield manuscripts at the Newberry Library. Katherine Mansfield Society Newsletter. (21), pp. 6-7. 2040-2597.
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It was whilst working my way through the rich holdings of Katherine Mansfield materials at the Newberry Library in May 2015 that I came across a thick folder of poems. On opening the folder and leafing through the contents, I realized that I had uncovered a large number of previously
unknown poems by Mansfield dating from 1909/10, written when she was just 22. This is a period of her life where biographical information is at its most scant, since she systematically destroyed all her personal papers from this difficult youthful period in her life.
