We are so pleased to be welcoming Gerri Kimber here to Hatchards this evening. Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, President of the Katherine Mansfield Society for ten years and having written extensively on Mansfield’s life and work, Gerri will be discussing her revelatory new biography:
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
On the fringes of Bloomsbury, and friends with D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot and many others, Katherine Mansfield was at the heart of literary London at its most experimental. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just 34, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield’s ‘was the only writing I was ever jealous of’.
As we will discover this evening, Gerri Kimber has uncovered friendships and relationships that previously had been barely acknowledged and yet not only lead to fresh readings of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories, but challenge a number of staid conceptions surrounding the author’s life.
In conversation with Michael Caines, senior editor at the Times Literary Supplement, this promises to be a fascinating evening of new insights into one of the greatest modern wiriters – we hope you will be able to join us!
