Katherine Mansfield and The Garden Party and Other Stories

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 IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations IntroductionTodd Martin CRITICISMRedefining ‘Photographic Realism’ in the Short Fiction of Katherine MansfieldDaisy BirchKnowing What We Feel about Katherine Mansfield: Sentimentality and Expression in ‘The Garden Party’Jay DicksonDickens, Death and Mary Ann: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Life of Ma Parker’Martin Griffiths ‘Passion in Movement’: Katherine Mansfield – Gesture, Motion, and Dance Richard CappuccioKatherine Mansfield’s ‘Marriage à la Mode’: ‘far too facile’?Anna KwiatkowskaThe Quest for Autonomy Amid Shifting Gender Expectations and Relationships in Katherine Mansfield’s Short StoriesCalvin Goh‘Forgive my Hat’: Clothing as a Condition of Narratability in The Garden Party and Other StoriesSamantha DewallyKatherine Mansfield’s Desperate Housewives and Metonymic DesireSovay Hansen‘If only one had time to look at these flowers long enough, time to get over the sense of novelty and strangeness’: The Political Language of Flowers in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other StoriesSharon GordonCREATIVE WRITING Short Story‘How Loud the Birds’Ailsa Cox‘The Marquee’Paula McGrath‘Endless Sea’Bronwyn CalderPoemTwenty Immortal Minutes: A Poem by Xu ZhimoStuart LyonsA Poem by Philippe ChabaneixGerri KimberCRITICAL MISCELLANY Returning to ‘Kathy’: Christopher Isherwood’s Katherine Mansfield FascinationSydney Janet KaplanKatherine Mansfield’s Daily Herald Review of Joseph Conrad’s The RescueJohn G. PetersREVIEW ESSAYRedrawing Katherine Mansfield’s Critical HorizonsElyse BlankleyNotes on ContributorsIndex