Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years

A new biography of Katherine Mansfield's formative years illustrated with photographs never published before.Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield s life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfield s childhood and adolescent years to her development as a writer and offers unique insights into her New Zealand stories.Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfield s former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, personal papers, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfield s home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and reveals the effect Mansfield s experiences had on her earliest stories. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a feisty and imaginative young girl who would turn into an expressive, non-conformist adolescent: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who would become Katherine Mansfield, the celebrated modernist writer.Illustrated with more than 120 photographs.

A new biography of Katherine Mansfield's formative years illustrated with photographs never published before.Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield s life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfield s childhood and adolescent years to her development as a writer and offers unique insights into her New Zealand stories.Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfield s former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, personal papers, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfield s home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and reveals the effect Mansfield s experiences had on her earliest stories. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a feisty and imaginative young girl who would turn into an expressive, non-conformist adolescent: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who would become Katherine Mansfield, the celebrated modernist writer.Illustrated with more than 120 photographs.