“Katherine Mansfield was not a rebel, she was an innovator. Born into the English traditions of prose narrative, she neither revolted against these nor broke with them - simply, she passed beyond them. And now tradition, extending, has followed her.”
elizabeth bowen, ‘a living writer: katherine mansfield’, in the mulberry tree: writings of elizabeth bowen, ed. by hermione lee (london: virago, 1986), pp. 69-89 (p. 75).
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“Don’t lose any more half stones! For Heaven’s sake put the half back again. […] God only loves the Fat; the thin people he sticks pins into for ever and ever.”Letter from Katherine Mansfield to Dorothy Brett. 29 July 1921.
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Cover, «The Trend» magazine, illustration by Djuna Barnes, October 1914. Courtesy of the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
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rebecca west in conversation (1976)
from the bbc archives, a television interview with the author rebecca west, first broadcast in 1976.
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Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
A two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, held at Newcastle University, UK, from 13-14 April 20120. The conference explores the changing relationship of women and travel across key moments in modernity, such the First World War and its effects on women’s independence, the developments in British Imperial activity, and the boom in rail, air and sea travel. The conference aims to stimulate academic discussion on a range of topics relating to women and travel in the period ranging from 1850-1950. These topics include representations of women and travel in fiction and film, non-fictional portrayals and documentations, as well as archival work on first-hand accounts of women travellers.
Registration for this event is now open.
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“‘You are late.’ Late, late with forest edges to everything.”
H.D., HERmione
(Source: leopoldgursky, via sketchofthepast)
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“It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being - the sea,the sky. She turned again and looked at the distant blue which was so smooth and serene where the sky met the sea; yes,she could not possibly want only one human being.”Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
(via awritersruminations)
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