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The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield

The Diaries of Katherine MansfieldIncluding Miscellaneous Works

Edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison

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About this book

Resituates Katherine Mansfield as an observant diarist, chronicler of her times and erudite reader of English and European literatures

Previously only available as edited excerpts or as largely unedited transcriptions, Katherine Mansfield’s diaries and notebooks have been re-transcribed and minutely edited for the first time, and are presented in this volume with precise historical, cultural and biographical contextual information. The entries show Mansfield’s evolution as a writer as well as the impact of her era on early drafts of her mature writings. This volume also contains fascinating new material never previously published – poem-cycles, letters, Mansfield’s own illustrations, and the last materials she was working on in the final weeks of her life. A detailed index facilitates cross-reading and referencing for scholars and general readers alike.

Reviews

This transcription of the non-fiction parts of Mansfield’s Notebooks, meticulously edited and annotated by two of the world’s foremost Mansfield scholars, is both an indispensible academic tool and a delight to the common reader. Here is the writer at work in her own incomparably clever, sensitive and witty person.
This meticulously and expertly edited volume of Katherine Mansfield’s Diaries brings her personal writings to us in all their brilliance, vividness, wit and sadness. Through them, we can trace the development of the mind and sensibility of one of the most powerful writers of the twentieth century. A major achievement.
The scholarly excellence of the new edition – with comprehensive notes and accurate textual annotations – is in no doubt...we owe much to the dedication of Gerri Kimber who was inspired to produce the series and who has been centrally involved in the planning and editing of all four volumes.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Textual Note; Chronology: Katherine Mansfield 1888–1923; Introduction; 1901; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; Miscellany; Appendix: Errata for vols 1-3.
About the contributors

Gerri Kimber

Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25).

Claire Davison

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

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