Katherine Mansfield

by Claire Tomalin

  8 ‘MAKE ME YOUR MISTRESS’

  1. J.M.M., ‘Life’, Rhythm, summer 1911.

  2. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 194.

  3. K.M., Poems, p. xiii.

  4. J.M.M. to K.M., March 1912, The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield, ed. C. A. Hankin (Constable, London, 1983), p. 17.

  5. Information supplied by Mrs Barbara Barr (née Weekley), who overheard the conversation.

  6. J.M.M. to K.M., 26 March 1912, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 18.

  7. K.M. to Frank Harris, summer 1912, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 113.

  8. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 179.

  9. K.M. to Mrs Beauchamp, 15 December 1914, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 144.

  10. Glenavy, op. cit., p. 56.

  11. K.M. to Sylvia Payne, 11 September 1912, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 113.

  12. D. H. Lawrence to Edward Garnett, 19 December 1912, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton (Cambridge University Press, 1979), vol. I, p. 489.

  13. Jessie Chambers, D.H. Lawrence: A Personal Record (Jonathan Cape, London, 1935), p. 82.

  14. Rhythm, March 1913.

  15. D. H. Lawrence to Ernest Collings, 24 February 1913, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. I, p. 519.

  16. Glenavy, op. cit., p. 58.

  9 ‘ALL I REMEMBER IS SUNSHINE AND GAIETY’

  1. K.M. to Edward Garnett, February 1913, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 119.

  2. J.M.M. to K.M., 19 May 1913, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 24.

  3. ibid., 12 May 1913, p. 23.

  4. K.M. to J.M.M., 13 May 1913, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 122.

  5. D.H. Lawrence to Ernest Collings, 13 May 1913, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. I, p. 548.

  6. J.M.M. to K.M., 6 May 1913, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 21.

  7. D. H. Lawrence to Constance Garnett, 10 July 1917, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. I, p. 32.

  8. J.M.M., Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence (Jonathan Cape, London, 1933), p. 33.

  9. K.M.'s MS of ‘Maata’, transcribed by Margaret Scott and published in the Turnbull Library Record, May 1979.

  10. D.H. Lawrence to J.M.M., 27 November 1913, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p. 111.

  11. K.M. to Charlotte Perkins (née Beauchamp), 22 December 1913, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 133.

  12. Journal, 15 November 1914, p. 62.

  13. K.M. to Ida Baker, 24 February 1914, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 138.

  14. Journal, 26 March 1914, p. 56.

  10 1914: ‘OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER THINGS’

  1. J.M.M., Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, p. 39.

  2. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 284.

  3. Several accounts of this incident exist, including one by Murry himself and one by Ivy Litvinov, in Adam (nos. 370–75, 1972).

  4. D.H. Lawrence to Sallie Hopkin, 13 July 1914, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 196.

  5. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 295.

  6. H. Lawrence to S. S. Koteliansky, 11 July 1914, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 207.

  7. D. H. Lawrence to Edward Marsh, 25 August 1914, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II p. 212.

  8. Journal, p. 61.

  9. K.M. to Harold Beauchamp, 15 December 1914, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 142.

  10. ibid., p. 142.

  11. K.M. to Vera Bell (née Beauchamp), 26 February 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 246.

  12. Memoirs and Correspondence of Frieda Lawrence, ed. E.W. Tedlock (Heinemann, London 1961), p. 64.

  13. J.M.M., Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, p. 40.

  14. Memoirs and Correspondence of Frieda Lawrence, Tedlock, p. 425.

  15. Leonard Woolf, The Autobiography of Leonard Woolf (Hogarth Press, London, 1964), vol. III, p. 252.

  16. S.S. Koteliansky to Sydney Waterlow, 31 June 1927, cited by John Carswell in Lives and Letters (Faber, London, 1978), p. 101.

  17. D.H. Lawrence to Amy Lowell, 18 December 1918, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p. 244.

  18. The Selected Letters of Mark Gertler, ed. Noel Carrington (Hart-Davis, London, 1965), introduction, p. 34.

  19. ibid., p.77.

  20. Journal, 18 December 1914, p. 63.

  21. ibid., 1 January 1915, p. 64.

  22. ibid., 10 January 1915, p. 67.

  23. ibid., 20 January 1915, p. 70.

  24. K.M. to Frieda Lawrence, 22 February 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 150.

  25. Journal, 20 February 1915, p. 78.

  26. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 340.

  27. K.M. to S.S Koteliansky, 10 March 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 154.

  28. ibid., 29 March 1915, p. 173.

  29. K.M. to J.M.M, 22 March 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 164.

  30. J.M.M. to K.M., 25 March 1915, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 54.

  31. K.M. to J.M.M., 8 May 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 178.

  32. ibid., 6–7 May 1915, p. 176.

  33. D.H. Lawrence to S.S. Koteliansky, 3 May 1915, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p. 33.

  34. J.M.M. to K.M., 11 May 1915, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 63.

  35. K.M. to J.M.M., 14 May 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 187.

  36. D.H. Lawrence to Ottoline Morrell, 9 September 1915, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 389.

  37. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 351.

  38. Mark Gertler to Carrington, 14 September 1915. The Selected Letters of Mark Gertler, Carrington, p. 102.

  39. K.M. to S.S. Koteliansky, 28 November 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I. p.201.

  40. K.M. to Anne Drey, 8 December 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 203.

  41. J.M.M. to K.M., 20 December 1915, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 79.

  42. ibid., 26 December 1915, p. 88.

  43. K.M. to J.M.M., 29 December 1915, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 239.

  44. ibid., 30–31 December 1915, p. 244.

  45. Journal, 22 January 1916, p. 94.

  46. ibid., 13 February 1916, p. 96.

  47. K.M. to J.M.M., 22 March 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p.255.

  48. D.H. Lawrence to K.M. and J.M.M., 24 February 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p. 550.

  49. Frieda Lawrence to K.M., 8 March 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p.571.

  50. K.M. to J.M.M., 22 March 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 254.

  11 CORNWALL 1916: ‘A WHOLE SPRING FULL OF BLUE-BELLS’

  1. D. H. Lawrence to J.M.M. and K.M., 5 March 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 564.

  2. ibid., p. 563.

  3. K.M. to Virginia Woolf, 26 April 1919, The Letters of K.M., J.M.M., vol. I, p. 228.

  4. K.M. to Brett, 26 February 1922, The Letters of K.M., J.M.M., vol. 11, p. 189.

  5. K.M. to Beatrice Campbell, 4 May 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 261.

  6. D.H. Lawrence to J.M.M. and K.M., 24 February 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. I, p. 549.

  7. K.M. to Beatrice Campbell, 4 May 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, p. 262.

  8. Frieda Lawrence, ‘Katherine Mansfield Day by Day’, MS in the Humanities Research Center Library, University of Texas at Austin.

  9. K.M. to Beatrice Campbell, 4 May 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p.261.

  10. K.M. to S.S. Koteliansky, 11 May 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol
. I, p. 263.

  11. ibid., p. 264.

  12. D. H. Lawrence to J.M.M. and K.M., 8 March 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 570.

  13. Cited in Paul Delaney, D.H. Lawrence's Nightmare (Harvester, Sussex, 1979), p. 222.

  14. D.H. Lawrence to Gordon Campbell, 25 January 1917, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. III, p. 83.

  15. K.M. to S. S. Koteliansky, 24 June 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 269.

  16. K.M. to Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 269.

  17. D.H. Lawrence to S.S. Koteliansky, 7 July 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. 11, p. 623.

  18. The Selected Letters of Mark Gertler, Carrington, p. 114.

  19. D.H. Lawrence to S.S. Koteliansky, 10 July 1916, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. II, p. 628.

  20. D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (Martin Secker, London, 1921), chapter 4.

  21. ibid., chapter 17.

  22. D. H. Lawrence to K.M., 27 March 1919, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. III, p.343.

  23. D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, chapter 24.

  24. ibid., chapter 29.

  25. ibid.

  26. ibid., chapter 30.

  27. K.M. to S.S. Koteliansky, 3 July 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 270.

  28. Delaney, op. cit., p. 252.

  29. Brett, Lawrence and Brett (Martin Secker, London, 1933), p. 17.

  30. New Age, 24 May 1917.

  31. Leonard Woolf, op. cit., p. 198.

  32. Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 July 1916, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912–22, Nicolson, vol. II, p. 107.

  33. K.M. to Bertrand Russell, 1 December 1916, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p.286.

  34. ibid., 7 December 1916.

  35. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Allen & Unwin, London, 1963), vol. II, p.27.

  36. Gerald Brenan, Personal Record (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1974), p. 57.

  37. K.M. to J.M.M., early January 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 291.

  38. ibid., January 1917, p. 290.

  39. F.A. Lea, John Middleton Murry (Methuen, London, 1959), p. 84.

  40. K.M. to Ottoline Morrell, 14 January 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 291.

  41. Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 11 February 1917, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912–22, Nicolson, vol. 11, p. 144.

  42. ibid., 27 June 1917, p.159.

  43. K.M. to Ottoline Morrell, 3 July 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 315.

  44. K.M. to Brett, 11 October 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 331.

  45. Humanities Research Center Library, University of Texas at Austin.

  46. K.M. to Virginia Woolf, December 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 342.

  47. K.M. to Anne Drey, 22 December 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 353.

  48. K.M. to J.M.M., 23–24 December 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 358.

  49. K.M. to Ottoline Morrell, 28 December 1917, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. I, p. 362.

  12 1918: ‘A GREAT BLACK BIRD’

  1. J.M.M., God (Jonathan Cape, London, 1929), p. 19.

  2. K.M. to J.M.M., 11 January 1918, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 115.

  3. ibid., p. 116.

  4. ibid., 18 January 1918, p. 124.

  5. ibid., 3 February 1918, p. 150.

  6. ibid., 19 February 1918, p. 173.

  7. Baker, op. cit., p. 113.

  8. J.M.M. to K.M., 10 March 1918, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 137.

  9. Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 1 February 1918, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912–22, Nicolson, vol. 11, p. 214.

  10. J.M.M. to K.M., 15 February 1918, The Letters of J.M.M. to K.M., Hankin, p. 121.

  11. I am indebted to Sophie Tomlin for showing me an unpublished paper on Katherine Mansfield's work which I found helpful in considering ‘Je ne parle pas français’, although our conclusions are not identical.

  12. K.M. to J.M.M., 1 February 1918, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 148.

  13. ibid., 26 March 1918, p. 229.

  14. Baker, op. cit., p. 112.

  15. K.M. to Brett, 30 April 1918, Collected Letters, Scott and O'Sullivan, vol. II, p. 167.

  16. J.M.M., Between Two Worlds, p. 481.

  17. Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 24 May 1918, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1912–22, Nicolson, vol. II, p. 243.

  13 ‘HE OUGHT NOT TO HAVE MARRIED’

  1. K.M. to J.M.M., 19 May 1918, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 250.

  2. Cut by J.M.M. from letter dated 26 May 1918, in the Alexander Turnbull Library.

  3. Baker, op. cit., p. 122.

  4. K.M. to J.M.M., 9 June 1918, K.M.’s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 292.

  5. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915–19, 17 June 1918, Bell, vol. I, p. 156.

  6. ibid., 12 June 1918, p. 167.

  7. Baker, op. cit., p. 122.

  8. ibid., p. 135.

  9. Journal, December 1920, p. 229.

  10. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915–19, 9 November 1918, Bell, vol. I, p. 216.

  11. Leonard Woolf, op. cit., p. 204.

  12. Journal, May 1919, p. 158.

  13. Baker, op. cit., p. 158.

  14. Journal, 19 May 1919, p. 154.

  15. ibid.

  16. ibid., June 1919, p. 166.

  14 ‘A BROTHER ONE LOVES’

  1. Baker, op. cit., p. 133.

  2. K.M. to Brett, 27 October 1918, The Letters of K.M., J.M.M., vol. I, p. 215.

  3. D. H. Lawrence to Stanley Hocking, 30 October 1918, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. III, p. 294.

  4. J.M.M., Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, p. 92.

  5. Journal, October 1918, p. 150.

  6. K.M. to J.M.M., 20 November 1919, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M., p.399.

  7. J.M.M., Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence, p. 93.

  8. D.H. Lawrence to K.M., 29 November 1918, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Boulton, vol. III, p. 301.

  9. ibid., 10 December 1918, p. 308.

  10. ibid., 5 December 1918, p. 302.

  11. ibid. 10 December 1918 p. 307.

  12. ibid., 27 March 1919, p. 343.

  13. ibid.

  14. K.M. to S.S. Koteliansky, 17 July 1922, The Letters of K.M., J.M.M., vol. II, p. 229.

  15. Journal, p. 185.

  16. K.M. to Violet Schiff, January 1922, The Letters of K.M., J.M.M., vol. II, p. 175.

  17. K.M., Novels and Novelists, ed. J.M.M. (Constable, London, 1930), p. 308.

  18. K.M. to J.M.M., 8 October 1922, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 668.

  19. ibid., 19 November 1922, p. 688.

  20. ibid., 13 October 1922, p. 671.

  15 ‘A SENSE OF BEING LIKE’

  1. K.M. to J.M.M., 12 November 1919, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, p. 387.

  2. ibid., 17 November 1919, p. 395.

  3. ibid., 23 November 1919, p. 407.

  4. ibid., 12 December 1919, p. 442.

  5. K.M. to Anne Drey, May 1920, cited in Adam (no. 300, 1965), p.91.

  6. J.M.M. to Brett, 8 March 1920, letter in the Special Collections Department, University of Cincinnati Libraries.

  7. K.M. to Violet Schiff, May 1920, British Library Add. MS.

  8. K.M., Novels and Novelists, pp. 107–11.

  9. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915–19, 18 February 1919, Bell, vol. I, p. 243.

  10. ibid., 22 March 1919, p. 258.

  11. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920–24, 31 May 1920, Bell, vol. 11, p.43.

  12. ibid., 31 May 1920, p.44.

  13. ibid., p. 45.

  14. ibid., 25 August 1920, p. 61.

  15. ibid., p. 62.

&
nbsp; 16. Cited in Adam (nos. 370–75, 1972) and dated 27 December 1920.

  17. E. M. Forster to Sydney Waterlow, January 1921, The Letters of E.M. Forster, eds. Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (Collins, London, 1983), vol. I, p. 312.

  18. British Library Add. MS.

  19. New Statesman, 15 January 1921.

  20. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920–24, 25 August 1920, Bell, vol. II, p. 61.

  21. ibid., 16 January 1923, pp. 225–7

  22. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925–30, 7 December 1925, Bell, vol. III, p. 50.

  23. Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 August 1931, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1926–31, Nicolson, vol. IV, p. 366.

  24. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920–25, 17 October 1924, Bell, vol. II, p. 317.

  25. The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936–41, 15 January 1941, Bell, vol. V, p. 352.

  16 ‘I AM A WRITER FIRST’

  1. Journal, September 1920, p. 216.

  2. K.M. to J.M.M., 29 September 1920, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., P. 547.

  3. ibid., 19 September 1920, p. 539.

  4. ibid., 28 November 1920, p. 602.

  5. ibid., 16 September, 1920, p. 536.

  6. K.M. to J. B. Pinker, 3 May 1922, unpublished letter in the Newberry Library, Chicago.

  7. Gilbert Phelps Hutchinson, The Russian Novel in English Literature (Hutchinson, London, 1956), pp. 189–90.

  8. George Bernard Shaw to Floryan Sobieniowski, 26 September 1924, The Letters of George Bernard Shaw, ed. Dan H. Laurence, vol. III, pp. 883–4.

  9. K.M. to J.M.M., 31 October 1920, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., P. 579.

  10. ibid., 10 November 1920, p. 591.

  11. ibid., 16 October 1920, p. 563.

  12. ibid., 31 October 1920, p. 579.

  13. Letter to Ida Baker, which she showed to the author.

  14. K.M. to J.M.M., 17 November 1920, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., P. 597.

  15. ibid., 3 December 1920, p. 610.

  16. ibid., 12 December 1920, p. 622.

  17. Baker, op. cit., p. 162.

  18. Mairet, op. cit., p. 59.

  19. Cited in Alpers, op. cit., p. 332.

  20. K.M. to J.M.M., 12 December 1920, K.M.'s Letters to J.M.M.: 1913–22, J.M.M., p. 622.