Katherine Mansfield's Women by Aime Gasston, Gerri Kimber - 9781399550871

Edinburgh University Press

Katherine Mansfield's WomenAuthor(s): Aime Gasston, Gerri Kimber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399550871, 978-1399550871\nSynopsis\nKatherine Mansfields astute eye for power imbalances, including those that are gendered, is apparent across her fiction. Her working life was also fraught with the types of material needs set out by Virginia Woolf in A Room of Ones Own, published after Mansfields death in 1929. Although the young Mansfield decided she could not be a suffragette (in a letter of 17 September 1908 to Garnet Trowell), her work often addresses social injustices with portrayals of characters who are hemmed in by circumstance and reaching toward a sense of personal freedom and authenticity. This volume comprises a number of essays by Mansfield specialists on the theme of Katherine Mansfields Women, in addition to a diverse range of creative writing and a reassessment of J. D. Fergusson.