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Open Book: Katherine Mansfield

08/01/2023

Katherine Mansfield

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Katherine Mansfield

Exploring the writing of Katherine Mansfield a hundred years after her death.

Chris Power explores the writing of Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death with Claire Harman, Lucy Caldwell and Dr Chris Mourant.

Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf admitted being jealous of, yet by the 1950s was so undervalued that Elizabeth Bowen was moved to ask, 'Where is she - our missing contemporary?' 

Mansfield died one hundred years ago this month, aged just 34 years old, and in this programme Chris Power explores her turbulent life, and legacy,  through her innovative contribution to Modernism and the short story. Chris is joined by Claire Harman, author of a new biography, All Sorts of Lives, which takes a fresh look at Mansfield's life through ten of her most pivotal stories, the short-story writer and novelist Lucy Caldwell and Dr Chris Mourant.

Book List – Sunday 8 January and Thursday 12 January

All Sorts of Lives by Claire Harman
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield 
Journal by Katherine Mansfield 
The Montana Stories by Katherine Mansfield 
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield 
In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield 
The Child Who Was Tired by Katherine Mansfield 
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield 
Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant

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