Gillian Boddy

Katherine Mansfield. The woman and the writer.

Katherine Mansfield

This collection of notes, poems, letters and stories with a linking commentary serves as an introduction to Katherine Mansfield

The Woman and the Writer

Robin Hyde

Jacqueline D. Matthews

"... This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out of print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency with makes them relevant to us all.The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself." -- Back cover.

Robin Hyde, Journalist

Disputed Ground

Four of Katherine Mansfield's stories are printed, together with an introductory biography. The outline of her life is intended to show how the Mansfield's work was influenced by her New Zealand upbringing, and discusses Mansfield's relationships with women such as Ida Baker and Maata Mahupuku. There are black and white photographs to illustrate the introduction.

Gillian Boddy

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