Katherine Mansfield by Claire Tomalin - ISBN: 9780241963302
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Haunted writer, brilliant circles, beauty, recklessness, early death, lasting legacy.

Katherine Mansfield

A Secret Life

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    10 August 2012

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Summary

‘One of the best biographies I have ever read- a perfect match of author and subject’ - Alison Lurie

Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241963302
ISBN-10:0241963303
Author:Claire Tomalin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:10 August 2012
Weight:227g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
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About The Author

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin has been literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. She has written seven highly acclaimed literary biographies including Samuel Pepys, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year award, and the international bestseller Charles Dickens. She is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

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