Katherine Mansfield a Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
Katherine Mansfield a Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
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This biography of Mansfield examines her rebellious reaction to her colonial background, her self-destructive revolt against respectability and her emotional life. Includes accounts of her lesbian friendships, love affairs, miscarriage and abortion; her period of drugs and squalor; her one-day marriage, and her extraordinary relationship with John Middleton Murray. Her last years were dominated by her quest for health in France, Italy and Switzerland. Giving up hope of a cure from conventional medecine she resorted to the mysticism of Gurdjieff in whose hands she died at the age of thirty-four. Links the events of her life with her development as a writer and discusses the influence of her friendships with her contemporaries; D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ottoline Morrell and others, including a hitherto unknown meeting with James Joyce. This 1979 Hamish Hamilton Hardback is in good condition. DJ; previous owner's name inside.
ISBN: 9780241898888 SKU: 1557878 This image is of the actual book.
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