Katherine Mansfield's Women

Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. 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).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionGerri KimberCRITICISMKatherine Mansfield’s Women: ‘Ninon de Longclothes’John Wood‘There was nowhere’: Literary Women and Contingent Identity in the Modernist Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and May SinclairClaire DreweryExquisite Wilds and Small Enchantments: Mansfield, Women, Nature and ArtRishona ZimringCorrespondence: Colette and Katherine MansfieldChris MourantLight and Legacy: Katherine Mansfield and Olgivanna Lloyd WrightErika Baldt‘Here is safety for us to grow’: Katherine Mansfield, Simone de Beauvoir and Love Beyond the FamilyLuca PinelliWomen’s Experience of Emotion: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Taking the Veil’ and ‘A Dill Pickle’Gwenda KooSecret Selves and Shadowy Others: Divisive Femininity in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and ‘A Cup of Tea’Anna HoovlerMarginalised Women in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Israel ZangwillMartin GriffithsThe Ecofeminist Consciousness of Katherine Mansfield and Xiao HongQiong JiaCREATIVE WRITINGCreative Responses‘Rare, rare joy’: Performing MansfieldAmelia McBride Baker‘Journey from the Flatlands’Michaela Anchan ‘Coucou’Eden Carter WoodPoetry‘Carlotta’s Song’Orion Foote‘When I First Met You’Marcella FrattaCRITICAL MISCELLANY J. D. Fergusson’s Poise RevisitedJohn WoodREVIEW ESSAYThe Work (Fortunately) Never DoneJanka KascakovaNotes on ContributorsIndex