Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim

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). Isobel Maddison is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, where she is a College Lecturer and the Director of Studies in English. She works primarily on female modernism and on the connections between modernism and popular fiction. Isobel has published on Dorothy Richardson and Katherine Mansfield, and is the author of Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden (2013), the first full length treatment of this author, plus several essays on this writer. Isobel is President of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society. 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.

• AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Complementary Cousins, Isobel MaddisonCRITICISMAfter Life – Expressions of Mourning in Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield, Juliane RömhildTracing Garden Networks: Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim, Bonnie Kime Scott‘Our own little grain of truth’, Angela SmithWriting Toward a New World: Awakenings in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April, Noreen O’Connor‘Ces femmes avec ces fleurs!’: Flowers, Gender, and Relationships in the work of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield, Karina JacubowiczStrange Monsters: Struggle for Women’s Validity as Artists in Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield, Richard Cappuccio‘Not a Feminist, but…’: Elizabeth von Arnim and Female Resistance, Alison HenneganDigging Out Characters: Elizabeth von Arnim in Virginia, Ann Herndon Marshall‘[P]assionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontës in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte FiehnCREATIVE WRITINGStorySarah Laing: ‘Vessel’PoemNina Powles: ‘If Katherine Mansfield Were My Best Friend’CRITICAL MISCELLANYOf Bliss and Blushing: Cities and Affect in Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, Andrew ThackerBeatrice Hastings in Paris, Chris MourantREVIEW ESSAYKatherine Mansfield’s Many Forms, Derek RyanNotes on ContributorsIndex