Katherine Mansfield was born a century ago and died in 1923, but there is still something tantalizing about the 'faint ghost with the steady eyes, the mocking lips and, at the end, the wreath set on her hair.'* *quote from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-30 (1980) I read, but did not particularly enjoy Claire … Continue reading Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life | Claire Tomalin
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An Indiscreet Journey | Katherine Mansfield #ShortStory
An Indiscreet Journey was a short story written in 1915 by Katherine Mansfield but published posthumously in the 1924 collection, Something Childish and other stories by her husband John Middleton Murry. Initially it reads like a fairly straight forward story about a woman on a train journey to visit her aunt and uncle in the middle … Continue reading An Indiscreet Journey | Katherine Mansfield #ShortStory