Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories-In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party-during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the vast mass of material and revised much of what he included, resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal spirit.More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious, witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and obsessed with death. Margaret Scott is National Library research fellow at New Zealand's National Library in Wellington. She has coedited five volumes of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield.Times Literary SupplementIt is only now, with the publication of Margaret Scott's complete and unselective transcription of the material bequeathed to Murry, that we can really see Mansfield, off her guard and unexpurgated, for the first time. . . . Mansfield's notebooks are remarkable, touched by a sense of the underlying pathos of things, two parts tragedy and two parts comedy.
IntroductionxiiiAcknowledgementsxxivAbbreviationsxxvUnbound Papers1Enna Blake1A Happy Christmas Eve2Three 20th Century Girls3The Pine-tree, the Sparrows, and You and I5Notebook 407His Ideal7Concerning Cornet players8A True Tale9Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht9Twilight10List of Names10Deutsch sentences for Conversation11It was a big bare house surrounded with pine trees11The old Inkstand12Friendship - 112Friendship - 212It was visiting afternoon in a London hospital14The Song of my Lady15Notebook 3716Contents List16Evening17The Sea17The Three Monarchs17Music18A Fragment18Love's Entreaty19I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned19New Years Eve20Unbound Papers22Night22To M23Battle Hymn23The Chief's Bombay Tiger23To Ping Pong24To a Little Child24In the Darkness25The Springtime26To Grace26Hope26Farewell27Verses of Little Q27Two Ideas with One Moral28This is my world, this room of mine28Notebook 29, Part 130She30Books I have read31Dear old George32Unbound Papers33Your Birthday33Dear friend, when back to Canada you go35One Day35Les Deux Etrangeres38What, think you, causes me truest Joy40The Students' Room40Notebook 29, Part 241My Potplants41"I was never happy," Huia said ...43Memories44French45Notebook 148Juliet48The little boy went to sleep in the car69An Attempt69The sunlight shone in golden beams70A Young Ladies Version of The Cards71On waking next morning ...71What You Please71The Tale of the Three73Away beyond the line of the dark houses ...74Summer Idylle 190675To those who can understand her77There are a more or less large number of weak minded looking females ...77I walk along the broad almost deserted street78At Sea78I constantly am hearing80The Child of the Sea81When NZ is more artificial ...81Twilight walkers with sand ...821 drawers82Association of ideas82Fair Water Nymph, I pray of you83I am full of Ideas, tonight84Oh, do let me write something really good ...85Yvonne walked slowly through the gardens85Out here it is the Summer time86Macdowell87The Man, the Monkey and the Mask88Poems of the Apostle of Youth88The long day pulsed slowly through88Cigarettes89Ah! never more again90Lo I am standing the test90Notebook 29, Part 392In the Tropics92Unbound Papers93A Common Ballad93Notebook 3994Quotations94Comme une fleur que le veut chasse99Selections from Dorian Gray99Diary Entries99Beloved - tho' I do not see you ...104She unpacked her box and then went into the sitting room ...104Diary Entries106My dear Mr Trowell109Diary Entries109Vignette - They are a ridiculous company ...110Diary Entries111The Story of Pearl Button112Expenses113Unbound Papers114The Green Tree114Notebook 29, Part 4119Night came swiftly119By dint of hiding from others ...120This is just a little song121I can write nothing at all121O Mother Mine, O mother mine121In the room next to mine a little boy is ill121Vignette - I groped my way up the dark stairs ...121The Growing of Wings122Shadow children thin & small122There is, I think, Mr Trowell123I have a little garden plot123Unbound Papers124She & the Boy124The Thoughtful Child126It is evening, and very cold129Vignette - Westminster Cathedral130Prose131Notebook 2135Urewera Camping Trip135Youth150Diary Entries150Mein lieber Freund153Charles Dickens 1812153Juliette Delacour154The Unexpected Must Happen155Great white hungry lions ...156Thursday. I am at the sea ...156Evening157Vignette - Summer in Winter158Vignette - This is Angelica158In the pocket of an old coat ...159Balzac159Leves Amores160Rewa felt that she had entered ...161In the train162I could find no rest163In the train to Harwich164In this room164Quotations on Art164I wish indeed that I had a fountain pen166Mrs Webber's recipe166Maori language166Account167Unbound Papers168Dear my Mother168Vignette - In the Botanical Gardens170In a Cafe171In Summer174L'Incendie177Newberry Notebook 1178Song By The Window Before Bed178The Funeral179A Little Boy's Dream179Winter Song180On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary180Song of the Little White Girl180A Few Rules for Beginners181A Day in Bed181Opposites182Song of Karen the Dancing Child183A Joyful Song of Five!183The Candle Fairy184The Last Thing185The Quarrel185A Song for Our Real Children185Grown-up Talks186You won't understand this - 'cause you're a Boy186The Lonesome Child186Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child187Autumn Song188Spring Wind in London188A Fairy Tale189The Yellow Chrysanthemum191Vignette - By the Sea193Unbound Papers195Study: The Death of a Rose195Vignette - Through the Autumn Afternoon ...195On the Sea Shore196A Sad Truth197A Song of Summer197The Winter Fire197The Lilac Tree199In the Church199The Trio199Vignette - I look out through the window200Revelation201Red as the wine of forgotten ages202October202Youth and Age203The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations204Notebook 29, Part 5207And through the wood he lightly came207Unbound Papers208I am quite happy for you see208Out to the glow of sunset, brother208Notebook 8210Diary Entries210And through the wood he lightly came213Music213And which do I love most my dear214Out in the fog stained, mud stained street they stand215Song of the Camellia Blossoms216Cupid one day grew tired ...216Sleepy eyes and a poisonous voice217The Last Lover219Scarlet Tulips219Born in New Zealand in Wellington ...220It was the freedom of those days ...224Song of the Cabbage Tree225Diary Entries225And Mr Wells has got a play upon the English stage226Ooh er there's the pond ...226Unbound Papers227A.C.F. Letter227Being the List of Virtues & Vices ...228His Sister's Keeper228Dearest, There is so much to tell you of ...234The Grandmother235The Sea Child235Just as she was making some tea ...236Floryan Nachdenklich236Maata237Newberry Notebook 2248Maata248Young Country261Rose Eagle263Notebook 33265Weekly Account265Pudding Recipes272Notebook 19274William (P.G.) is very well274I am going to read Goethe275I went into Jack's room ...275Notebook 23277K.T. and her sister were walking ...277The Toothache Sunday278The Last Friday279Notebook 18280Diary Entries280Unbound Papers286Diary Entries286The Meeting287These be two288Most merciful God288Deaf House Agent289Toujours fatiguee Madame289Notebook 10290Shakespeare290I simply cannot believe ...296Accounts296I wish I could have a second family ...297She lay in bed ...297Today is Sunday299Unbound Papers300The brilliant sunny weather, & spring weather300Le pele mele305One night when Jack was with Goodyear ...305Account306The only one who sang ill was the cripple306Index307
