Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922

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). Vincent O’Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellington, is the world’s foremost Mansfield scholar and is President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. He has edited, with Margaret Scott, the five volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Collected Letters, published by Oxford University Press. He is also widely published as a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and biographer.

• Abbreviations and Textual Note; Fiction 1916–1922; 1916; That Woman; Last Words to Youth; The Laurels; 1917; The Lost Battle; Toots; Two Tuppenny Ones Please; Late at Night; The Black Cap; In Confidence; The Common Round; A Pic-Nic; Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day; Prelude; Feuille d’Album; A Dill Pickle; Love-Lies-Bleeding; 1918; Je ne parle pas français; Sun and Moon; Bliss; The Boy with the Jackdaw; To the Last Moment; Carnation; Love in Autumn; ‘Did M. wear a grey dressing gown’; ‘A stupid, silly poem’; Keeping Up; ‘Don’t you think it would be marvellous’; 1919; A Suburban Fairy Tale; ‘It was neither dark nor light in the cabin’; See Saw; Pictures; ‘R’s first husband was a pawnbroker’; 1920; Late Spring; This Flower; Psychology; The Man Without a Temperament; The Wrong House; Revelations; The Escape; A Dance At The – – – ; Bank Holiday; The Wind Blows; The Young Girl; The Singing Lesson; The Stranger; Miss Brill; Poison; The Lady’s Maid; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; There is no Answer; You love me – still?; Tea on the Train; 1921; Life of Ma Parker; ‘After a succession of idle, careless, or clumsy, or unwilling little boys’; Mr and Mrs Dove; Susannah; Such a Sweet Old Lady; Sixpence; An Ideal Family; Hat with a Feather; Her First Ball; Marriage à la Mode; Widowed; At the Bay; The Voyage; A Married Man’s Story; Second Violin; All Serene!; By Moonlight; The Garden Party; The Doll’s House; Six Years After; Weak Heart; Daphne; ‘I suppose, doctor’; ‘Carriages are not allowed’; ‘It fell so softly, so gently’; ‘On her way back to the garden’; ‘What was there about the little house’; The Pessimist; The Sisters; ‘Lucien’s mother was a dressmaker’; Honesty; 1922; The Doves’ Nest; A Cup of Tea; Taking the Veil; Mr and Mrs Williams; The Fly; Confidences; The New Baby; ‘Have you seen my cosmias dear?’; A Man and His Dog; Honeymoon; It was the late afternoon; A Family Dance; ‘Behind the hotel – à deux pas de l’hotel’; Father and the Girls; My Darling; The Lily; Our Hilda; ‘One great advantage’; ‘There are certain human beings’; A Bad Idea; The Canary; Appendix B: Attributed Stories; Bibliography; Index of first lines; Index of stories.

This much needed and very welcome work does two important things: It gives us all of Mansfield’s fiction, with useful notes; and it removes many of John Middleton Murry’s intrusions into the stories he edited after Mansfield’s death. We all owe the editors, Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, a debt of gratitude for this excellent edition of the work of a major modernist writer.