The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks

by Mansfield, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780816642366
• ISBN10: 0816642362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories -- In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party -- during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the vast mass of material and revised much of what he included, resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal spirit.

More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists offer a complete and

Author Biography

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888. One of the most influential short-story writers of the modern era, she was a great admirer of Anton Chekhov and an accomplished cellist. Among her works are In a German Pension, Prelude. Bliss and Other Stories, and The Garden Party and Other Stories. She died of tuberculosis in 1923 Margaret Scott is National Library research fellow at New Zealand's National Library in Wellington

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgements	xxiv
Abbreviations	xxv
Unbound Papers	1	(6)
Enna Blake	1	(1)
A Happy Christmas Eve	2	(1)
Three 20th Century Girls	3	(2)
The Pine-tree, the Sparrows, and You and I	5	(2)
Notebook 40	7	(9)
His Ideal	7	(1)
Concerning Cornet players	8	(1)
A True Tale	9	(1)
Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht	9	(1)
Twilight	10	(1)
List of Names	10	(1)
Deutsch sentences for Conversation	11	(1)
It was a big bare house surrounded with pine trees	11	(3)
The old Inkstand	12	(1)
Friendship - 1	12	(1)
Friendship - 2	12	(2)
It was visiting afternoon in a London hospital	14	(2)
The Song of my Lady	15	(1)
Notebook 37	16	(6)
Contents List	16	(3)
Evening	17	(1)
The Sea	17	(1)
The Three Monarchs	17	(1)
Music	18	(1)
A Fragment	18	(1)
Love's Entreaty	19	(1)
I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned	19	(1)
New Years Eve	20	(2)
Unbound Papers	22	(8)
Night	22	(1)
To M	23	(1)
Battle Hymn	23	(1)
The Chief's Bombay Tiger	23	(1)
To Ping Pong by J.E.C	24	(1)
To a Little Child	24	(1)
In the Darkness	25	(1)
The Springtime	26	(1)
To Grace	26	(1)
Hope	26	(1)
Farewell	27	(1)
Verses of Little Q	27	(1)
Two Ideas with One Moral	28	(2)
This is my world, this room of mine	28	(2)
Notebook 29, Part 1	30	(3)
She	30	(1)
Books I have read	31	(1)
Dear old George	32	(1)
Unbound Papers	33	(8)
Your Birthday	33	(2)
Dear friend, when back to Canada you go	35	(1)
One Day	35	(3)
Les Deux Etrangeres	38	(3)
What, think you, causes me truest Joy	40	(1)
The Students' Room	40	(1)
Notebook 29, Part 2	41	(7)
My Potplants	41	(2)
``I was never happy,'' Huia said	43	(1)
Memories	44	(1)
French	45	(3)
Notebook 1	48	(44)
Juliet	48	(21)
The little boy went to sleep in the car	69	(1)
An Attempt	69	(2)
The sunlight shone in golden beams	70	(1)
A Young Ladies Version of The Cards	71	(1)
On waking next morning	71	(1)
What You Please	71	(2)
The Tale of the Three	73	(1)
Away beyond the line of the dark houses	74	(1)
Summer Idylle 1906	75	(2)
To those who can understand her	77	(1)
There are a more or less large number of weak minded looking females	77	(1)
I walk along the broad almost deserted street	78	(1)
At Sea	78	(3)
I constantly am hearing	80	(1)
The Child of the Sea	81	(1)
When NZ is more artificial	81	(1)
Twilight walkers with sand	82	(1)
I drawers	82	(1)
Association of ideas	82	(2)
Fair Water Nymph, I pray of you	83	(1)
I am full of Ideas, tonight	84	(1)
Oh, do let me write something really good	85	(1)
Yvonne walked slowly through the gardens	85	(2)
Out here it is the Summer time	86	(1)
Macdowell	87	(1)
The Man, the Monkey and the Mask	88	(1)
Poems of the Apostle of Youth	88	(1)
The long day pulsed slowly through	88	(1)
Cigarettes	89	(3)
Ah! never more again	90	(1)
Lo I am standing the test	90	(2)
Notebook 29, Part 3	92	(1)
In the Tropics	92	(1)
Unbound Papers	93	(1)
A Common Ballad	93	(1)
Notebook 39	94	(20)
Quotations	94	(5)
Comme une fleur que le veut chasse	99	(1)
Selections from Dorian Gray	99	(1)
Diary Entries	99	(5)
Beloved - tho' I do not see you	104	(1)
She unpacked her box and then went into the sitting room	104	(2)
Diary Entries	106	(3)
My dear Mr Trowell	109	(1)
Diary Entries	109	(1)
Vignette - They are a ridiculous company	110	(1)
Diary Entries	111	(1)
The Story of Pearl Button	112	(1)
Expenses	113	(1)
Unbound Papers	114	(5)
The Green Tree	114	(5)
Notebook 29, Part 4	119	(5)
Night came swiftly	119	(1)
By dint of hiding from others	120	(1)
This is just a little song	121	(1)
I can write nothing at all	121	(1)
O Mother Mine, O mother mine	121	(1)
In the room next to mine a little boy is ill	121	(1)
Vignette - I groped my way up the dark stairs	121	(1)
The Growing of Wings	122	(1)
Shadow children thin & small	122	(1)
There is, I think, Mr Trowell	123	(1)
I have a little garden plot	123	(1)
Unbound Papers	124	(11)
She & the Boy	124	(2)
The Thoughtful Child	126	(3)
It is evening, and very cold	129	(1)
Vignette - Westminster Cathedral	130	(1)
Prose	131	(4)
Notebook 2	135	(33)
Urewera Camping Trip	135	(15)
Youth	150	(1)
Diary Entries	150	(3)
Mein lieber Freund	153	(1)
Charles Dickens 1812	153	(1)
Juliette Delacour	154	(1)
The Unexpected Must Happen	155	(1)
Great white hungry lions	156	(1)
Thursday. I am at the sea	156	(1)
Evening	157	(1)
Vignette - Summer in Winter	158	(1)
Vignette - This is Angelica	158	(1)
In the pocket of an old coat	159	(1)
Balzac	159	(1)
Leves Amores	160	(1)
Rewa felt that she had entered	161	(1)
In the train	162	(2)
I could find no rest	163	(1)
In the train to Harwich	164	(1)
In this room	164	(1)
Quotations on Art	164	(2)
I wish indeed that I had a fountain pen	166	(1)
Mrs Webber's recipe	166	(1)
Maori language	166	(1)
Account	167	(1)
Unbound Papers	168	(10)
Dear my Mother	168	(2)
Vignette - In the Botanical Gardens	170	(1)
In a Cafe	171	(3)
In Summer	174	(4)
L'Incendie	177	(1)
Newberry Notebook 1	178	(17)
Song By The Window Before Bed	178	(1)
The Funeral	179	(1)
A Little Boy's Dream	179	(1)
Winter Song	180	(1)
On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary	180	(1)
Song of the Little White Girl	180	(1)
A Few Rules for Beginners	181	(1)
A Day in Bed	181	(1)
Opposites	182	(1)
Song of Karen the Dancing Child	183	(1)
A Joyful Song of Five!	183	(1)
The Candle Fairy	184	(1)
The Last Thing	185	(1)
The Quarrel	185	(1)
A Song for Our Real Children	185	(1)
Grown-up Talks	186	(1)
You won't understand this - 'cause you're a Boy	186	(1)
The Lonesome Child	186	(1)
Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child	187	(1)
Autumn Song	188	(1)
Spring Wind in London	188	(1)
A Fairy Tale	189	(2)
The Yellow Chrysanthemum	191	(2)
Vignette - By the Sea	193	(2)
Unbound Papers	195	(12)
Study: The Death of a Rose	195	(1)
Vignette - Through the Autumn Afternoon	195	(5)
On the Sea Shore	196	(1)
A Sad Truth	197	(1)
A Song of Summer	197	(1)
The Winter Fire	197	(2)
The Lilac Tree	199	(1)
In the Church	199	(1)
The Trio	199	(1)
Vignette - I look out through the window	200	(3)
Revelation	201	(1)
Red as the wine of forgotten ages	202	(1)
October	202	(1)
Youth and Age	203	(1)
The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations	204	(3)
Notebook 29, Part 5	207	(1)
And through the wood he lightly came	207	(1)
Unbound Papers	208	(2)
I am quite happy for you see	208	(1)
Out to the glow of sunset, brother	208	(2)
Notebook 8	210	(17)
Diary Entries	210	(3)
And through the wood he lightly came	213	(1)
Music	213	(3)
And which do I love most my dear	214	(1)
Out in the fog stained, mud stained street they stand	215	(1)
Song of the Camellia Blossoms	216	(1)
Cupid one day grew tired	216	(1)
Sleepy eyes and a poisonous voice	217	(3)
The Last Lover	219	(1)
Scarlet Tulips	219	(1)
Born in New Zealand in Wellington	220	(4)
It was the freedom of those days	224	(1)
Song of the Cabbage Tree	225	(1)
Diary Entries	225	(1)
And Mr Wells has got a play upon the English stage	226	(1)
Ooh er there's the pond	226	(1)
Unbound Papers	227	(21)
A.C.F. Letter	227	(1)
Being the List of Virtues & Vices	228	(1)
His Sister's Keeper	228	(6)
Dearest, There is so much to tell you of	234	(2)
The Grandmother	235	(1)
The Sea Child	235	(1)
Just as she was making some tea	236	(12)
Floryan Nachdenklich	236	(1)
Maata	237	(11)
Newberry Notebook 2	248	(17)
Maata	248	(13)
Young Country	261	(2)
Rose Eagle	263	(2)
Notebook 33	265	(9)
Weekly Account	265	(7)
Pudding Recipes	272	(2)
Notebook 19	274	(3)
William (P.G.) is very well	274	(1)
I am going to read Goethe	275	(1)
I went into Jack's room	275	(2)
Notebook 23	277	(3)
K.T. and her sister were walking	277	(1)
The Toothache Sunday	278	(1)
The Last Friday	279	(1)
Notebook 18	280	(6)
Diary Entries	280	(6)
Unbound Papers	286	(4)
Diary Entries	286	(4)
The Meeting	287	(1)
These be two	288	(1)
Most merciful God	288	(1)
Deaf House Agent	289	(1)
Toujours fatiguee Madame	289	(1)
Notebook 10	290	(10)
Shakespeare	290	(6)
I simply cannot believe	296	(1)
Accounts	296	(1)
I wish I could have a second family	297	(1)
She lay in bed	297	(2)
Today is Sunday	299	(1)
Unbound Papers	300	(7)
The brilliant sunny weather, & spring weather	300	(5)
Le pele mele	305	(1)
One night when Jack was with Goodyear	305	(1)
Account	306	(1)
The only one who sang ill was the cripple	306	(1)
Index	307