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“... she breastfeeds, and they read (in a nicely understated twist of self-reference) short stories by Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence. Sonje has lost her job at the library because she’s suspected of ‘Communism’. There is an honourable tradition in English language fiction – in women’s fiction particularly – of narrative engagement with ...”

“... but also as the discovery by the female of her independent personal existence. The young Katherine Mansfield worshipped them too, and modelled herself on them, and there is a striking similarity, in the appearance of face and hair, between Mansfield and Tsvetaeva. Although a much greater talent than ...”

“... of the first two volumes of T.S. Eliot’s letters, and the year before of the final volume of Katherine Mansfield’s, raises questions about the relationship between these two and their spouses, Vivien Haigh-Wood and John Middleton Murry.* Why was Eliot distrustful, and even apprehensive, of Mansfield? What was ...”

“... World Picture is still a dominant text), and one feels he is being absurd when he favours Katherine Mansfield over Woolf only because, ‘as a “colonial” and a banker’s daughter Mansfield knew what it was to be cold-shouldered by the literati’ – despite all this, one feels an attractive spirit of ...”

“... of stories hardly seems to bear this out. In his anthology he includes one New Zealander (Katherine Mansfield), one Australian (Patrick White), one Canadian (Morley Callaghan) and one Southern African (Doris Lessing). Of these four writers, three are at least as well-known for their novels as for their stories. Since this review is being written ...”

“... beyond Chekhov and Dostoevsky, partly because the previous year she had been irked by a review of Katherine Mansfield which had compared her writing favourably to the Russians. In 1921 she also read Women in Love, although she may have skipped, and the next year she renewed her relationship with Jacques Raverat. Now dying of multiple sclerosis, Raverat ...”

“... confirmation of my viewpoint that such different authors as Pietro Citati, with his Vita Breve di Katherine Mansfield, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, with his Marbot, eine Biographie, should have turned to the Anglo-Saxon model in order to subvert it silently from the inside, multiplying its ambiguities and exploiting the secret possibilities of the ...”

“... days you want to bang her head through a wall,’ said H.G. Wells. On the other hand, her cousin Katherine Mansfield was grateful, almost against the grain, for her generosity. Keeping a hold on such a number of famous witnesses needs a very firm biographer. Then there are the subsidiary lives of the unrembered – notably of the children, who came to ...”

“... characters’ minds, sprinkling information like confetti: ‘Libby adored Of Human Bondage and Katherine Mansfield and Edna Millay and Elinor Wylie and quite a lot of Virginia Woolf, but she could never get anybody to talk with her about books any more, because Lakey said her taste was sentimental.’ Or: ‘But the red-letter day in Mr Andrews’s ...”

“... certain kind of woman writer who’s a capital W, capital W. Virginia Woolf certainly was one, and Katherine Mansfield was one.’ McCarthy doesn’t think Eudora Welty is one, but then changes her mind: Welty has ‘become one lately’ (the date of this interview is 1961). Elisabeth Sifton, interviewing, asks McCarthy what happens to turn a woman writer ...”

“... need it so much, a fix that becomes hard to do without? ‘What a vile little diary,’ wrote Katherine Mansfield on January 1915, ‘but I am determined to keep it this year.’ Bereavements and troubles made the ‘other’ in it infinitely precious, a release from the daily grind of consciousness, in which most people without the lust for words ...”

“... a smallish canon of perhaps a dozen of New Zealand’s “best” writers grouped around Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, James K. Baxter and Janet Frame’. Serious fiction and poetry have been ‘privileged’ over other genres, which have been ‘marginalised’. All this needs correction, ‘Even the notion of ...”

“... be taught and find your real self. His most famous follower (though not for long), Katherine Mansfield, wrote when she joined his community shortly before her death: ‘the question is always: Who Am I? ... If I were allowed one single cry to God, that cry would be I want to be REAL.’ Even Christ, though, did not say: ‘Come unto ...”

“... Love was published in 1936, the story of a casual love affair that turns into the real thing. Katherine Mansfield, who had deeply admired Futility, had urged him many years back to attempt ‘one of those stories of a simple heart’, and both her advice and his eager acceptance of it show that both possessed the strong streak of sentimentality ...”

“... It contains a lesbian and a voyeur element, with its roots probably way back in Mrs Dalloway and Katherine Mansfield, but the sense of separateness and loneliness it brings is all its own, like the singular portrait of gentility and madness which Hal Porter got into his story ...”