Katherine Mansfield and Children

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). A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin’s primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.

• List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction: ‘A kind of childlikeness’ – Katherine Mansfield and Children - Gerri KimberCRITICISMCasting ‘a haunting light’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood - Tracy MiaoMansfield and Murry: Two Children Holding Hands - Kathleen JonesThe Thoughtful Child: The Sentimental Origins of Katherine Mansfield’s Children - Todd MartinKatherine Mansfield’s Play Aesthetics - Imola Nagy-SeresKatherine Mansfield’s Sleeping Boys - Erika BaldtKezia a ‘ninseck’, Kezia the Bee - Janka Kascakova‘Real Childhood’: The Daring of Katherine Mansfield and Alice Meynell - Ann Herndon MarshallA NEW STORY‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ by Katherine Mansfield - Martin Griffiths‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ - Katherine Mansfield CREATIVE WRITING Short Story‘Mr. Brill’ - Michael Hoover & Daniel HumberdCreative EssayThe Life-Affirming Words of Katherine Mansfield in a Time of Pandemic - Monica MacansantosCRITICAL MISCELLANY The Paper Knife – Patrick White and Katherine Mansfield - Oliver SteadAppearances Matter: Katherine Mansfield and the Photographic Record - J. Lawrence MitchellREVIEW ESSAY‘A widening circle of connectedness’ in Mansfield studies - Jenny McDonnellNotes on ContributorsIndex