The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K – Z(The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield)

About the Book

The first volume of this edition of Katherine Mansfield's letters, correspondents AJ, is heavily weighted towards the Beauchamp family and several of her closest friends. This second volume, quite by chance, puts the emphasis far more on Mansfield's literary and intellectual friendships especially members of the Bloomsbury group. It includes letters to Sylvia Lynd, the Hon. Bertrand Russell, Sydney and Violet Schiff, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf and Hugh Walpole, as well as those individuals who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell (herself the recipient of one of the largest number of letters in this volume) at Garsington Manor.
With over twenty new letters not published in previous editions of her letters, as well substantial revisions and additions to a number of other letters, accompanied by thoroughly researched annotations, this volume offers many new insights into Mansfield's epistolary relationships.

Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementsTextual Note and Abbreviations Letters Chronology: Volume 2 Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Epistolarity - Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber The Collected Letters K–Z Edmond Xavier Kapp - Introduction by Gerri Kimber ‘Cousin Kate’ - Introduction by Redmer Yska Alexander Kay - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Alfred A. Knopf - Introduction by Claire Davison S. S. Koteliansky - Introduction by J. Lawrence Mitchell Frieda Lawrence - Introduction by Aimée Gasston Robert Lynd - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Sylvia Lynd - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Compton Mackenzie - Introduction by Claire Davison Maata Mahupuku - Introduction by Anna Plumridge Dr Ivan Manoukhin - Introduction by Claire Davison Edward Marsh - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Elkin Mathews - Introduction by Gerri Kimber R. B. T. Miller - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Sarah Gertrude Millin - Introduction by Claire Davison Julian Morrell - Introduction by Claire Davison Lady Ottoline Morrell - Introduction by C. K. Stead Thomas and Bessie Moult - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Richard Murry - Introduction by Kathleen Jones The New Age - Introduction by Chris Mourant (Mary) Edna Nixon - Introduction by Gerri Kimber A. R. Orage - Introduction by Chris Mourant William Orton - Introduction by J. Lawrence Mitchell Clara Palmer - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Herbert Palmer - Introduction by Claire Davison Sylvia Payne - Introduction by Gerri Kimber John Campbell Perkins Introduction by Gerri Kimber Eric Pinker - Introduction by Chris Mourant J. B. Pinker - Introduction by Chris Mourant Martha Putnam - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Ribnikov (‘Ribni’) - Introduction by Claire Davison Anne Estelle Rice - Introduction by Aimée Gasston Daniel Rider - Introduction by Claire Davison Viscountess Rothermere - Introduction by Claire Davison Berta Ruck - Introduction by Gerri Kimber John Ruddick - Introduction by Gerri Kimber The Hon. Bertrand Russell - Introduction by Claire Davison Michael Sadleir - Introduction by Chris Mourant Sydney Schiff - Introduction by Helen Rydstrand Violet Schiff - Introduction by Helen Rydstrand Martin Secker - Introduction by Claire Davison Clement Shorter - Introduction by Jenny McDonnell Dr Victor Sorapure - Introduction by Gerri Kimber J. C. Squire - Introduction by Claire Davison Lytton Strachey - Introduction by Claire Davison Frank Swinnerton - Introduction by Claire Davison Lilian Trench - Introduction by Gerri Kimber R. C. Trevelyan - Introduction by Claire Davison (Thomas) Arnold Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths Garnet Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths Thomas Luigi Trowell - Introduction by Martin Griffiths Marion Tweed - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Hugh Walpole - Introduction by Claire Davison Sydney Waterlow - Introduction by Claire Davison Orlo Williams - Introduction by Claire Davison Wingley and Athenaeum - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Leonard Woolf - Introduction by Claire Davison Virginia Woolf - Introduction by Claire Davison Unidentified recipients - Introduction by Gerri Kimber Omission from Volume 1 AppendixWorks ConsultedIndex

About the Author :
Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (201216). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete letters for EUP (202025).

Review :
This meticulously edited second volume of the Edinburgh Collected Letters gives us Mansfield the writer, artist and editor in her experimental prime, reflecting on her work in innovative ways that expand and deepen our sense of her oeuvre. The clustered arrangement, embracing some of the key figures in her writing life, including Ottoline Morrell, Anne Estelle Rice and Virginia Woolf, shows the leading modernist honing her self-awareness as a writer, contributing in vital ways to developing some of the techniques and ideas now understood to be signatures of modernism – rhythm, ellipsis, the porous self and the moment in time.