December 2011
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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!