{"product_id":"katherine-mansfield-the-early-years-paperback","title":"Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerri Kimber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfield's childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a writer. The biography draws extensively on previously unused archive material, including the research papers assembled by Ruth Elvish Mantz for her 1933 biography of Mansfield, detailed reminiscences of former school friends and acquaintances, Mansfield's autograph book, birthday book, her early letters, notebooks and family papers. Using this rich seam of material, Gerri Kimber explores Mansfield's home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and her travels through the volcanic North Island of New Zealand and examines her earliest published stories which appeared in school magazines. What emerges is a picture of a feisty, mischievous, young girl and an expressive, non-conformist teenager: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who became Katherine Mansfield, the famous modernist writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and the author of \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield: The View from France\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159583490111,"sku":"9781399560276","price":42.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/nARL2UaPy9781399560276.webp?v=1776999920","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/katherine-mansfield-the-early-years-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}