Katherine Mansfield
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
eBook
( Feb. 15, 2019)
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a 1923 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield, published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains all the complete stories, and several fragments of stories, which she wrote at the same time as, or after, those published in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
This book includes the following short stories: The Doll's House; Honeymoon; A Cup of Tea; Taking the Veil; The Fly; The Canary; A Married Man's Story; The Doves' Nest; Six Years After; Daphne; Father and the Girls; All Serene; A Bad Idea; A Man and his Dog; Such a Sweet Old Lady; Honesty; Susannah; Second Violin; Mr. and Mrs. Williams; Weak Heart; Widowed
Author: Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923) Mansfield is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Mansfield's family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer. In 1917, she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, that claimed her life at age 34.
Mansfield was the subject of the 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, starring Vanessa Redgrave. The six-part series included adaptations of Mansfield's life and of her short stories. In 2011, a television biopic titled Bliss was made of her early beginnings as a writer in New Zealand; she was played by Kate Elliott.
This book includes the following short stories: The Doll's House; Honeymoon; A Cup of Tea; Taking the Veil; The Fly; The Canary; A Married Man's Story; The Doves' Nest; Six Years After; Daphne; Father and the Girls; All Serene; A Bad Idea; A Man and his Dog; Such a Sweet Old Lady; Honesty; Susannah; Second Violin; Mr. and Mrs. Williams; Weak Heart; Widowed
Author: Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923) Mansfield is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Mansfield's family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer. In 1917, she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, that claimed her life at age 34.
Mansfield was the subject of the 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, starring Vanessa Redgrave. The six-part series included adaptations of Mansfield's life and of her short stories. In 2011, a television biopic titled Bliss was made of her early beginnings as a writer in New Zealand; she was played by Kate Elliott.
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