Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Vincent O'Sullivan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'
Download or read book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume IV 1920 1921 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2. Includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth, in a text which has been transcribed afresh from the original letters. Volume 3: Covers the eight months she spent in Italy and the South of France between the English summers of 1919 and 1920. It was a time of intense personal reassessment and distress. Mansfield's relationship with her husband John Middleton Murry was bitterly tested, and most of the letters in this present volume chart that rich and enduring partner'ship through its severest trial. This was a time, too, when Mansfield came to terms with the closing off of possibilities that her illness entailed. Without flamboyance or fuss, she felt it necessary to discard earlier loyalties and even friendships, as she sought for a spiritual standpoint that might turn her illness to less negative ends. As she put it, 'One must be ... continually giving & receiving, and shedding & renewing, & examining & trying to place'. Volume 4. The letters is this volume cover the eighteen months katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf...Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life. 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.' -- Publisher.
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume II 1918 September 1919 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters in the second of this five-volume series are dominated by Mansfield's love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her struggle to accept the inevitable advance of her tuberculosis.
Download or read book Letters of Note written by Shaun Usher and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume III 1919 1920 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2. Includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth, in a text which has been transcribed afresh from the original letters. Volume 3: Covers the eight months she spent in Italy and the South of France between the English summers of 1919 and 1920. It was a time of intense personal reassessment and distress. Mansfield's relationship with her husband John Middleton Murry was bitterly tested, and most of the letters in this present volume chart that rich and enduring partner'ship through its severest trial. This was a time, too, when Mansfield came to terms with the closing off of possibilities that her illness entailed. Without flamboyance or fuss, she felt it necessary to discard earlier loyalties and even friendships, as she sought for a spiritual standpoint that might turn her illness to less negative ends. As she put it, 'One must be ... continually giving & receiving, and shedding & renewing, & examining & trying to place'. Volume 4. The letters is this volume cover the eighteen months katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf...Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life. 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.' -- Publisher.
Download or read book Letters Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1903 1917 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Edinburgh Edition of the C. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by recipient, this innovative four-volume edition allows the reader to explore and share Katherine Mansfield's individual relationships via her letters. Well-known Mansfield scholars Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber have returned to the author’s original letters, retranscribing and fully annotating them, incorporating recently discovered biographical material as well as previously unpublished letters. As the four volumes in the Collected Letters reveal, letter writing was an essential part of Mansfield’s literary production.
Download or read book Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the pioneers of the "stream of consciousness" style of short storywriting, Katherine Mansfield never fully realized her true greatness as a writer because of her untimely death at age thirty-four. But she did leave behind an impressive outpouring of evocative writing, including a wealth of fascinating letters to her friends in the Bloomsbury circle, her family, and countless other acquaintances. Drawn from the five volumes of her Collected Letters, this completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence ranges from her first schoolgirl exchanges of 1903 to her last letters from the Gurdjieff Institute of Fontainebleau twenty years later. Brilliantly conveying her vivid and restless personality throughout a life that has become almost legendary for its vivacity and courage, this collection presents the voice of a new kind of twentieth-century woman moving erratically, but determinedly, toward self-definition. The volume includes many letters to John Middleton Murry--representing a moving record of what she referred to as "that utterly intense love"--and others to such friends as Lady Ottoline Morrell, Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, S.S. Koteliansky, Anne Estelle Drey, and Dorothy Brett, as well as to her own family and chance acquaintances. Together, they chart her wide range of writing styles and reveal something of the vitality, warmth, and incisive wit that places Mansfield among the most poignant and entertaining of modern letter writers.
Download or read book Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray written by Cherry Hankin and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented. Here, juxtaposed for the first time, are 300 letters exchanged between them during their extraordinary eleven-year relationship. The letters begin in January 1912, a month after their first meeting, when both were relative newcomers to the London literary scene; the last, a letter from Murry, was written four days before Katherine died, in Fontainebleau, in January 1923. The intervening years were ones of both feverish creativity and heartbreaking frustration; of intense closeness and unassailable distance; of shared idealism and, as Katherine's illness took its inexorable hold, of mutual recognition that the glittering partnership they'd once envisaged would be cut tragically short. Whether sparkling or witty, reflective or despairing, the letters have the immediacy of conversation and the candor of the very finest epistolary writing. They illustrate wonderfully the unique personal magnetism which has become part of the Mansfield legend, and indicate, too, that posterity has perhaps judged Murry more harshly than ever she did. As Katherine herself wrote: "I feel no other lovers have walked the earth more joyfully-in spite of all."
Download or read book The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Virago. This book was released on 1988 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the correspondence between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. Their lives were inextricably, and often painfully, intertwined until her tragically early death from tuberculosis in 1923.
Download or read book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by J. Middleton Murry and published by . This book was released on 1979-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
