Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

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'I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to be scrupulously truthful ... and to give you the freedom of the city without any reserves at all.' Katherine Mansfield's ardent overture to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual admiration and fascination shot through with wary misunderstandings, rivalry and envy. These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship - absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical, competitive, sometimes foundering in 'quicksands' - and its profound impact on their creative imaginations. About the Author Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. 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. Christine Froula is a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at Northwestern University, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Thinking Sideways through One’s Sisters Criticism Powers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Together and Apart Seated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Katherine’s Secrets A Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew Gardens ‘Roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife’: Hermeneutics of the Modern Female Face in Woolf and Mansfield The Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf and Lawrence Dangerous Reading in Mansfield’s Stories and Woolf’s ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’ Creative Writing TALK Getting Virginia Woolf’s Goat PLAY The Point of ‘Slater’s Pins’: An Introduction Virginia Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being: “Slater’s Pins Have No Points”’ POETRY Critical Miscellany ‘Not the kind to die’: Katherine Mansfield and the Unquiet Ghost of ‘little brother’ Review Essay ‘Which of my many [. . .] hundreds of selves?’ Extending Mansfield’s Posthumous Literary Reception Notes on Contributors Index