Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1

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

• Acknowledgements Preface - Ali SmithIntroduction - Claire Davison and Gerri KimberTextual Note and AbbreviationsConrad Aiken - Biosketch by Sydney Janet KaplanElizabeth von Arnim - Biosketch by Jennifer WalkerIda Baker - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellAmy Barkas - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAnnie Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeCharlotte Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellHarold Beauchamp - Biosketch by Helen RydstrandJeanne Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellLeslie Beauchamp - Biosketch by J. Lawrence MitchellVera Beauchamp - Biosketch by Anna PlumridgeAndrew Bell - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Belloc Lowndes - Biosketch by Claire DavisonEdith Bendall - Biosketch by Moira TaylorPrincess Elizabeth Bibesco - Biosketch by Claire Davison Edmund Blunden - Biosketch by Gerri KimberGeorge C. Bowden - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Edwin J. Brady - Biosketch by Gerri KimberDorothy Brett - Biosketch by Aimée GasstonLaura Bright - Biosketch by Gerri KimberBeatrice Campbell - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrancis Carco - Biosketch by Claire DavisonDouglas Clayton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMarie Dahlerup - Biosketch by Gerri KimberWalter De La Mare - Biosketch by Jenny McDonnellO. Raymond Drey - Biosketch by Claire DavisonJohn Drinkwater - Biosketch by Claire DavisonLulu Dyer - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Duncan Fergusson - Biosketch by Aimee GasstonJinnie Fullerton - Biosketch by Gerri KimberJohn Galsworthy - Biosketch by Bronwen CarlisleConstance Garnett - Biosketch by Claire DavisonWilliam Gerhardi - Biosketch by Claire DavisonMark Gertler - Biosketch by Chris MourantArnold Gibbons - Biosketch by Claire DavisonFrederick Goodyear - Biosketch by Gerri Kimber Frank Harris - Biosketch by Claire DavisonViolet Hunt - Biosketch by Gerri KimberMary Hutchinson - Biosketch by Gerri KimberAlice Jones - Biosketch by Claire DavisonHugh Jones - Biosketch by Claire DavisonWorks ConsultedIndex

Each section of Davison and Kimber's richly researched new Letters to Correspondents is introduced with a biographical sketch of a correspondent, helping us see the nature of the impulse that moved her to write. [...] By choosing to tell their story of Mansfield's life through her relationships, Davison and Kimber transfer the emphasis normally given to her terminal illness to the extraordinary range of the relations she kept alive.