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May 13, 2024 · This LitSalon Special, a lecture by Dr Gerri Kimber, acknowledged as the world expert on Katherine Mansfield, serves as an introduction to our six week reading of Mansfield’s work: The Child Who Was Tired & other stories led by Karina Jakubowicz but can also be booked as a standalone event.
3 days ago · Katherine Mansfield is a full-time mom and when-she-can-sneak-a-few-minutes-of-writing-in writer who runs on the sheer joy of parenthood, coffee, and nostalgia. first drafts is a free, reader-supported passion project.
5 days ago · Views by Critics on Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (1929) is Woolf’s most sustained meditation on women’s relationships to their own writing. - She insists that in the 19th century, there was no common sentence ready for women’s use - Language must be adapted to the body - In Woolf’s aesthetics voice, style, sex, and the body come together in crucially shifting ways - These ways ...
May 25, 2024 · Through nuanced characterization and incisive social commentary, "An Ideal Family" offers a thought-provoking exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the pursuit of authenticity...
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May 21, 2024 · Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was short but dazzling. She was the only writer Virginia Woolf admitted being jealous of, yet by the 1950s was so undervalued that Elizabeth Bowen was moved to ask, 'Where is she - our missing contemporary?'
May 22, 2024 · Katherine Mansfield is her name and her talent lies in making the reader care for the characters or to feel exactly the mood she wants to convey. She takes simple moments from people lives and turns them into something important, a social commentary or a statement about love, loss, cruelty etc.
May 25, 2024 · Set in a small seaside town, the story follows a young girl named Miss Meadows who encounters a mysterious stranger on the beach. Through their brief interaction, Mansfield delves into themes of...
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