January 2012
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“In fact the pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 24 January 1922
“I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read &...”
– Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 1: 1903-1917 (via hateshiploveship)
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“You know, if the truth were known I have a perfect passion for the island where...”
– Katherine Mansfield, on New Zealand, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, 11 October 1917
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“It is ages since I have heard of Virginia [Woolf]. I thought she would have a...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, 22 December 1921
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acandleandawick:
Katherine has been dead a week, & how far am I obeying her “do not quite forget Katherine” which I read in one of her old letters. Am I already forgetting her? It is strange to trace the progress of one’s feelings. Nelly said in her sensational way at breakfast on Friday “Mrs Murry’s dead! It says so in the paper!” At that one feels - what? A shock of relief? - a rival the...
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“I have been pretending to have read Proust for years but this autumn M. and I...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 20 December 1921
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acandleandawick:
An Excellent arrangement is now made. Maynard and Sheppard are to live in Clive’s house and we take 3 Gower Street for nine months. Katherine and Murry will live in the Bottom floor, Brett on the second, and I in the attics. But my rent will only be nine pounds a year!!! So what affluence I shall have for Hotel life!!! I shall like living with Katherine I am sure - Murry has a...
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“Grey, grey…there is no light at all, and the autumn air is cold with the...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
December 2011
9 posts
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“I read of primroses in the paper. Primroses! Oh, what wouldn’t I give for...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, 22 December 1921
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“How well I know that rapture that comes sometimes when one is alone. I think...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 27 December 1921
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“I am alone. I am hidden. Life seems to have passed away, drifted,...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
“Do you ever see all those people who used to go [to] Garsington? It seems like...”
– [To Dorothy Brett, from Katherine Mansfield, Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland, 13 December 1921.]
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To John Middleton Murry Sent from Redcliffe Road, Fulham, Saturday night, May 18, 1917
My darling
Do not imagine, because you find these lines in your private book, that I have been trespassing. You know I have not — and where else shall I leave a love letter? For I long to write you a love letter tonight. You are all about me — I seem to breathe you — hear you — feel you in me and of me — What...
melissaincognito asked: LOVE your blog. im writing a comparison/contrast paper for ap lit right now on virginia woolf and katherine mansfield and your quotes are actually really helpful!
November 2011
8 posts
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“The longer I live the more I realise that in work only lies one’s strength...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, 15 October 1921
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“I have just finished a new book which is to be published at the New Year. And...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to John Galsworthy, 25 October 1921
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“I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Sydney Waterlow, 4 November 1921
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“There’s no escaping the glory of Life. Let us engage to live for ever. For...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Elizabeth, Countess Russell, 16 October 1921
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“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
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“I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Elizabeth, Countess Russell, 16 October 1921
“My room really has for me a touch of fairy. Is there anything better than my...”
– Katherine Mansfield, diary entry (20th September 1918). (via acandleandawick)
October 2011
15 posts
“I thought and thought this morning but to not much avail. I can’t think why, but...”
– Katherine Mansfield. Diary entry dated 8th December 1916. (via acandleandawick)
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“We sat on the top of the cliff overlooking the open sea. Our backs turned to the...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
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“… I should love to come to Asheham on the 17th. Do have me. My story [Prelude] I...”
– Katherine Mansfield, to Virginia Woolf (August 1917)
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“Quite suddenly, just after you had been so near,—for no reason that I can...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter dated August 11, 1917
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“It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter dated August 11, 1917
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“Your glimpse of the garden, all flying green and gold, made me wonder again who...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter dated August 15, 1917
“‘Suppose’ she used to say, ‘that I could succeed in writing as well as...”
– A. R. Orage remembers Katherine Mansfield (On Love, 1932)
acandleandawick:
[…] The amount of minute and delicate joy I get out of watching people and things when I am alone is simply enormous - I really only have ‘perfect fun’ with myself. When I see a little girl running by on her heels like a fowl in the wet, and say ‘My dear, there’s a gertie,’ I laugh and enjoy it as I never would with anybody. Just the same applies to my feeling for what is...
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“Four o’clock. Is it light now at four o’clock? I jump out of bed and...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
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“The man in the room next to mine has got the same complaint as I. When I wake in...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
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“Dawn broke, long in coming. She lay in the bed on her back, one arm behind her...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
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“Life is not gay. But at last she was conscious that a choice had to be...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
September 2011
20 posts
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“As usual, I find with Katherine what I don’t find with the other clever women a...”
– Virginia Woolf, diary entry (22 March 1919)
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“It seems to me that there is a great change come over the world since people...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, August 29th, 1921
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“What makes Lawrence a real writer is his passion. Without passion one writes in...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, August 29th, 1921
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“Since I last wrote summer has gone. It’s autumn. Now Jack brings home from...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Richard Murray, September 5th, 1921
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“I’ve finished my new book. Finished last night at 10.30. Laid down the pen...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, September 7th, 1921
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“It is so strange to bring the dead to life again. There’s my grandmother,...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, September 7th, 1921
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“[Katherine Mansfield] has an ugly impassive mask of a face—cut in wood, with...”
– Lytton Strachey, in a 1916 letter to Virginia Woolf, describing the writer Katherine Mansfield, who had spoken enthusiastically to Strachey about Woolf’s The Voyage Out. The Bloomsbury group could be famously cruel about both themselves and outsiders. (via thebloomsburygroup)