Acquisitions (141): Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1945 / 1968)

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Anne Estelle Rice: Katherine Mansfield (1918)


The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1945 / 1968)
[Hospice Shop, Birkenhead - 4/12/25]:

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. 1945. London: Constable & Company, 1968.

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Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Fiction (2 vols: 2013)

The Mysteries of Mansfield

In 1979, when I graduated from my secondary school, Rangitoto College, I was awarded a copy of Katherine Mansfield's Complete Stories for having been head of the Library Committee for the past couple of years. The job also came with a little badge which I occasionally forgot to take off when I went out in public. It caused much amusement to irreverent passers-by. What it really meant, though, was that I'd already been type-cast as a bookworm at such a tender age.

The book in question (which I still have) was a copy of the then current Golden Press Mansfield, with one recently uncovered extra story, "Brave Love", at the end of the otherwise standard contents of J. Middleton Murry's 1945 edition of his first wife's Collected Stories.

The other day I picked up another, very handsome copy of the Collected Stories, dated 1968, which also turned out to be a school prize from Rangitoto College. Interestingly enough, it claimed on the flyleaf to be a "definitive edition" of her "ninety-one stories."

Ninety-one stories? I count 88 in both the 1937 American and 1945 British editions of Mansfield's collected short stories - the sum total of the 42 in the three collections Mansfield published in her lifetime - 13 in In a German Pension (1911), 14 in Bliss and Other Stories (1920), and 15 in The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) - and the 46 issued posthumously - 6 (plus 15 unfinished pieces) in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923), and 25 in Something Childish and Other Stories (1924).

J. Middleton Murry, ed.: Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

If, as in the 1974 edition, we add "Brave Love" to these, that brings us to a total of 89 stories. But of course that's still far from being a complete collection of her fiction. Middleton Murry rather complicated the issue by dividing her posthumous notebooks and papers into the two somewhat arbitrary categories of Journal (1927) and Scrapbook (1939). Both of these books contain a large number of short pieces which might well be regarded as stories, or vignettes, or sketches, depending on your definition.

Katherine Mansfield: The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield (1939)

Antony Alpers' revisionist Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1984) also claims to be a "definitive edition" of her fiction. How many stories does it contain? 85. Fewer than the 88 in Middleton Murry's 1945 edition, or - for that matter - the 89 in Margaret Scott's 1974 Complete Stories.

It all comes down, then, to the basic question, "What is a story?" What was a story for Mansfield, that is. She was, after all, a Modernist. Her fragmentary, inconclusive plots are one of the things that singled her out as an important voice in the 1920s. Chekhov and Joyce had shown the way, but Hemingway and Mansfield were the first to really capitalise on their innovations.

Coming back to our various examples, it's interesting to see this process in action. For an editor such as Ian A. Gordon, in his Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1974), a "story" can as easily be located in the prose scraps collected in J. Middleton Murry's Journal or Scrapbook (1939) as in the five canonical story collections. For Alpers, on the other hand, it's only reasonably finished pieces of fiction that merit being included in his book.

It's a rare author whose posthumous remains diminish over time. Academic scholarship being what it is, there's a tendency for collected editions to grow ever larger as more and more disparate materials are located and included. One of the most striking recent instances of this is the new, 2-volume Edinburgh edition of Mansfield's Collected Fiction (2014), with its 217 separate pieces of prose.

As (by far) the most complete census of Mansfield's fiction to date, I've decided to use this as the baseline for my list of Stories below. I have, however, taken the liberty of shrinking the number from 217 to 216, as I see little reason to count separately Volume 1: 1898-1915 (110) "Autumns: II", and Volume 2: 1916-1922 (42) "The Wind Blows." The latter is simply a version of the former, tidied-up for magazine publication.

But is more less or less more when it comes to Mansfield? Is it better to read those first few carefully curated volumes of hers, or to plough through the bounteous pages collected for us by the Edinburgh editors, Gerri Kimber & Vincent O'Sullivan?

The comparative rarity (and prohibitive cost) of the Edinburgh volumes will probably keep them out of the hands of all but the most remorselessly completist collectors, so the question will remain moot for most of us.

"What fun if you were a classic!" wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins to his (then) more successful and celebrated poet friend Robert Bridges. Posterity has, alas, reversed the verdict in that case, but Katherine Mansfield certainly has no demotion from her classic status to fear - in her own native country, at any rate: probably in any foreseeable history of literary modernism.

Katherine Mansfield & John Middleton Murry

So why shouldn't we want to read her in full? There's much to be learned from those rough drafts of hers, and while she may never have actually intended them to have been read by anyone else, her tragic premature death from tuberculosis took the decision out of her hands. It was her husband - and literary executor - John Middleton Murry who started this whole paper chase in the first place, with his successively more and more revealing and more and more capacious editions of her posthumous papers.

Some - notably the director and screen-writers of the French/ NZ film Leave All Fair - have blamed Murry for this. Whether or not he betrayed his wife's stated intentions is a matter for him and his conscience. It is, I would myself argue, hardly appropriate for the rest of us to offer an opinion. The massive influence her journal had on such thirties writers as Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward, for whom "Kathy" and "Emily" (Katherine Mansfield and Emily Brontë) served as dual literary inspirations and ideals, would in itself justify its publication, I'd have thought.

In any case, I've listed below the contents of each the main editions of Katherine Mansfield's fiction. I've then keyed them to my master-list of stories so you can see at a glance in which places each piece has been included. I hope you find it informative. It was certainly quite interesting to compile.

John Reid, dir. Leave All Fair (1985)

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp)
["Katherine Mansfield"]
(1888-1923)

Short Stories:


1. In a German Pension (1911)
2. Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
   • Bliss and Other Stories. 1920. London: Bloomsbury Classics, 1994.
3. The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922)
4. The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923)
5. Something Childish and Other Stories [US: "The Little Girl"] (1924)
6. The Aloe (1930)
   • The Aloe. 1930. Ed. Vincent O’Sullivan. 1982. Virago Modern Classics, 174. London: Virago, 1985.
7. The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1937)
8. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1945)
   • Collected Stories. 1945. London: Constable & Company, 1968.
   • The Collected Short Stories. 1945. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
9. Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1953)
   • Selected Stories. Ed. D. M. Davin. 1953. The World's Classics, 539. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
10. The Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield [with "Brave Love"] (1974)
    • The Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield. 1974. Auckland: Golden Press, 1978.
11. Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories. Ed. Ian A. Gordon (1974)
    • Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories. Ed. Ian A. Gordon. London: Longman Group Limited, 1974.
12. The Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Definitive Edition. Ed. Antony Alpers (1984)
    • The Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Definitive Edition. Ed. Antony Alpers. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984.
    • The Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Definitive Edition. Ed. Antony Alpers. 1984. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1988.
13. The Montana Stories (2001)
14. The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915 (2012)
    • The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Vincent O'Sullivan. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 1 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
15. The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922 (2012)
    • The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Vincent O'Sullivan. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 2 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.



Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Poems (2016)


Poetry:


16. Poems (1923)
17. The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield (2014)
    • Included in: The Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Angela Smith. Editorial Assistant: Anna Plumridge. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 3 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
18. The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield (2016)
    • The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Claire Davidson. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2016.



Katherine Mansfield: The Poetry and Critical Writings (2014)


Non-fiction:


19. Novels and Novelists (1930)
20. The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield (1987)
21. The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield (2014)
    • Included in: The Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Angela Smith. Editorial Assistant: Anna Plumridge. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 3 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.



The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1954)


Journal:


22. The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
    • Journal of Katherine Mansfield. Ed. J. Middleton Murry. 1927. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1933.
23. The Journal of Katherine Mansfield; Definitive Edition. Ed. J. Middleton Murry (1954)
24. The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield (1939)
25. The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection (1977)
    • The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection. Ed. C. K. Stead. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
26. The Urewera Notebook (1978)
    • The Urewera Notebook. Ed. Ian A. Gordon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
27. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. 2 vols (1997)
    • The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Ed. Margaret Scott. 2 vols. Canterbury & Wellington: Lincoln University Press & Daphne Brasell Associates, 1997.

Katherine Mansfield: The Diaries and Miscellaneous Works (2016)



28. The Diaries and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Claire Davison (2016)



J. Middleton Murry, ed.: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield (1928)


Letters:


29. The Letters of Katherine Mansfield. 2 vols (1928–29)
30. Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913–1922 (1951)
31. The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield (1983)
    • The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield. Ed. C. A. Hankin. Auckland: Hutchinson Group (New Zealand) Limited, 1983.

32. The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, 4 vols (1984–96)
    1. 1903–17
       • The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield – Volume 1: 1903-1917. Ed. Vincent O’Sullivan & Margaret Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
    2. 1918–19
    3. 1919–20
    4. 1920–21
33. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Ed. Claire Davison & Gerri Kimber, 4 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020–26)
    
    1. Letters to Correspondents A – J (2020)
    
    2. Letters to Correspondents K – Z (2022)
    
    3. Letters to John Middleton Murry 1912–1918 (2023)
    
    4. Letters to John Middleton Murry 1919–1922 (2025)



Witi Ihimaera: Dear Miss Mansfield (1989)


Secondary:


34. O’Sullivan, Vincent. Katherine Mansfield’s New Zealand. 1974. Auckland: Viking, 1988.
35. Meyers, Jeffrey. Katherine Mansfield: A Biography. 1978. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
36. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. 1980. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
37. Ihimaera, Witi. Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp. Auckland: Viking, 1989.
38. Downes, Cathy. The Case of Katherine Mansfield: A Dramatic Monologue. From the Journal, Essays and Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Wellington: The Women’s Play Press, 1995.
39. Woods, Joanna. Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.
40. Stead, C. K. Mansfield. Auckland: Vintage, 2004.

C. K. Stead: Mansfield (2004)

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The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1937)

The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937.

Contents:

1. The Tiredness of Rosabel
2. How Pearl Button was Kidnapped
3. The Journey to Bruges
4. A Truthful Adventure
5. New Dresses
6. Germans at Meat
7. The Baron
8. The Sister of the Baroness
9. Frau Fischer
10. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
11. The Modern Soul
12. At Lehmann's
13. The Luft Bad
14. A Birthday
15. The Child-Who-Was-Tired
16. The Advanced Lady
17. The Swing of the Pendulum
18. A Blaze
19. The Woman at the Store
20. Ole Underwood
21. The Little Girl
22. Millie
23. Pension Séguin
24. Violet
25. Bains Turcs
26. Something Childish but Very Natural
27. An Indiscreet Journey
28. Spring Pictures
29. The Little Governess
30. The Wind Blows
31. Prelude
32. At the Bay
33. Late at Night
34. Two Tuppenny Ones, Please
35. The Black Cap
36. A Suburban Fairy Tale
37. Psychology
38. Carnation
39. Feuille d'Album
40. A Dill Pickle
41. Bliss
42. Je ne Parle pas Français
43. Sun and Moon
44. Mr. Reginald Peacock's day
45. Pictures
46. See-Saw
47. This Flower
48. The Wrong House
49. The Man Without a Temperament
50. Revelations
51. The Escape
52. Bank Holiday
53. The Young Girl
54. The Stranger
55. The Lady's Maid
56. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
57. Life of Ma Parker
58. The Singing Lesson
59. Mr. and Mrs. Dove
60. An Ideal Family
61. Her First Ball
62. Sixpence
63. The Voyage
64. The Garden-Party
65. Miss Brill
66. Marriage à la Mode
67. Poison
68. The Doll's House
69. Honeymoon
70. A Cup of Tea
71. Taking the Veil
72. The Fly
73. The Canary
Unfinished stories
74. A Married Man's Story
75. The Doves' Nest
76. Six Years After
77. Daphne
78. Father and the Girls
79. All Serene
80. A Bad Idea
81. A Man and His Dog
82. Such a Sweet Old Lady
83. Honesty
84. Susannah
85. Second Violin
86. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
87. Weak Heart
88. Widowed

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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (1945)

Collected Stories. 1945. London: Constable & Company, 1945. [1945]

Contents:

Bliss and Other Stories [1920]
1. Prelude
2. Je ne Parle pas Français
3. Bliss
4. The Wind Blows
5. Psychology
6. Pictures
7. The Man Without a Temperament
8. Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day
9. Sun and Moon
10. Feuille d'Album
11. A Dill Pickle
12. The Little Governess
13. Revelations
14. The Escape

The Garden-Party and Other Stories [1922]
15. At the Bay
16. The Garden-Party
17. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
18. Mr. and Mrs. Dove
19. The Young Girl
20. Life of Ma Parker
21. Marriage à la Mode
22. The Voyage
23. Miss Brill
24. Her First Ball
25. The Singing Lesson
26. The Stranger
27. Bank Holiday
28. An Ideal Family
29. The Lady’s Maid

The Dove's Nest and Other Stories [1923]
30. The Doll's House
31. Honeymoon
32. A Cup of Tea
33. Taking the Veil
34. The Fly
35. The Canary
Unfinished stories
36. A Married Man's Story
37. The Doves' Nest
38. Six Years After
39. Daphne
40. Father and the Girls
41. All Serene!
42. A Bad Idea
43. A Man and His Dog
44. Such a Sweet Old Lady
45. Honesty
46. Susannah
47. Second Violin
48. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
49. Weak Heart
50. Widowed

Something Childish and Other Stories [1924]
51. The Tiredness of Rosabel
52. How Pearl Button was Kidnapped
53. The Journey to Bruges
54. A Truthful Adventure
55. New Dresses
56. The Woman at the Store
57. Ole Underwood
58. The Little Girl
59. Millie
60. Pension Séguin
61. Violet
62. Bains Turcs
63. Something Childish but very Natural
64. An Indiscreet Journey
65. Spring Pictures
66. Late at Night
67. Two Tuppenny Ones, Please
68. The Black Cap
69. A Suburban Fairy Tale
70. Carnation
71. See-Saw
72. This Flower
73. The Wrong House
74. Sixpence
75. Poison

In a German Pension [1911]
76. Germans at Meat
77. The Baron
78. The Sister of the Baroness
79. Frau Fischer
80. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
81. The Modern Soul
82. At Lehmann's
83. The Luft Bad
84. A Birthday
85. The Child-Who-Was-Tired
86. The Advanced Lady
87. The Swing of the Pendulum
88. A Blaze

Katherine Mansfield: The Complete Stories (1974)

The Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Including 'Brave Love'. 1974. Auckland: Golden Press, 1978. [1974a]

Contents:

Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
The Garden-Party and Other Stories (1922)
The Dove's Nest and Other Stories (1923)
Something Childish and Other Stories (1924)
In a German Pension (1911)
• Brave Love (1915)

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Katherine Mansfield: The Aloe (1930)

Katherine Mansfield: The Aloe. Ed. J. Middleton Murry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. [1930]

Contents:

• The Aloe (1915)

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Katherine Mansfield: Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories (1974)

Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories. Ed. Ian A. Gordon. London: Longman Group Limited, 1974. [1974b]

Contents:

Part One - Spring: The Burnells
1. Enna Blake (1898)
An Unfinished Memory (1916) [Journal]
A Recollection of Childhood (1916) [Journal]
2. A Bad Idea (1921)
3. A Birthday (1911)
4. How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (1912)
5. About Pat (1905)
6. Prelude (1915-17)
7. The Doll’s House (1921)
8. New Dresses (1911)
Evening (1915) [Journal]
9. The Apple Tree (1915)
10. The Little Girl (1912)
11. That Woman (1916)
12. At the Bay (1921)
13. Rose Eagle (1916)
14. Aunt Fan (1922)
15. A Man and His Dog (1921)
16. Sixpence (1921)
17. The Skerritt Girl (1921)
18. Susannah (1921)

Part Two - Summer: The Sheridans
Spring in Tyrrell Street (1922) [Scrapbook]
19. Sisters (1921)
Saunders Lane (1916) [Journal]
Kezia and Tui (1915) [Scrapbook]
20. Maata (1915)
A Dream (1919) [Journal]
21. Sun and Moon (1918)
22. The Wind Blows (1915)
23. Love-Lies-Bleeding (1917)
Sewing-Class (1916) [Journal]
The Dressmaker (1922) [Journal]
24. A Dance (1920)
25. Her First Ball (1921)
The Sheridans (1922) [Scrapbook]
By Moonlight (1921) [Scrapbook]
26. The Garden-Party (1921)

Part Three - Summer's End
27. The Voyage (1921)
Down the Sounds (1922) [Scrapbook]
28. The New Baby (1922)
29. Weak Heart (1921)
30. Taking the Veil (1922)
The Scholarship (1917-18) [Scrapbook]

Part Four - Winter Cassandra (1920) [Scrapbook]
31. The Stranger (1920)
32. Six Years After (1921)
33. An Ideal Family (1921)
34. The Office Boy (1921)
35. The Fly (1922)

Part Five - Scenes from Colonial Life
36. Old Tar (1913)
37. The Wrong House (1920)
38. Second Violin (1921)
39. Honesty (1921)
40. Daphne (1921)
41. A Married Man’s Story (1921)
42. Ole Underwood (1913)
43. The Woman at the Store (1911)
44. Millie (1913)
45. The Canary (1922)

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Anthony Alpers, ed.: The Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Definitive Edition (1984)

The Stories of Katherine Mansfield: Definitive Edition. Ed. Antony Alpers. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984. [1984]

Contents:

From School Magazines: 1898-1905
1. Enna Blake
2. A Happy Christmas Eve
3. Die Einsame (The Lonely One)
4. About Pat

First Short Stories: Wellington, 1907-1908
5. In a Café
6. The Education of Audrey
7. The Tiredness of Rosabel (1908)

'Pension Sketches': The New Age, London, 1910
8. The Child-Who-Was-Tired
9. Germans at Meat
10. The Baron
11. The Luftbad
12. At ‘Lehmann’s’
13. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
14. The Sister of the Baroness
15. Frau Fischer

The New Age Once More: 1911-1912
16. A Birthday
17. The Modern Soul
18. The Advanced Lady
19. The Swing of the Pendulum
20. A Blaze
21. The Journey to Bruges
22. Being a Truthful Adventure
23. The Festival of the Coronation (with Apologies to Theocritus)
24. Two Parodies: Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells
25. Green Goggles

Rhythm and Other Journals: 1912-1913
26. The Woman at the Store
27. How Pearl Button was Kidnapped
28. The Little Girl
29. Old Cockatoo Curl
30. Ole Underwood
31. Millie
32. Epilogue I: Pension Seguin
33. Epilogue II: Violet
34. Epilogue III: Bains Turc

Paris and London: 1914-1915
35. Something Childish But Very Natural
36. The Little Governess
37. Spring Pictures
38. An Indiscreet Journey
39. The Wind Blows
40. Stay-laces

Bloomsbury: 1917
41. The Lost Battle (fragment of Geneva)

Experiments in Dialogue: The New Age 1917
42. Two Tuppenny Ones Please
43. Late at Night
44. The Black Cap
45. In Confidence
46. A Pic-Nic

The Short Story Resumed: Chelsea, 1917
47. Prelude
48. Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day
49. Feuille d’Album
50. A Dill Pickle

Riviera, Looe, Hampstead: 1918-1920
51. Je ne parle pas français
52. Sun and Moon
53. Bliss
54. Carnation
55. Psychology
56. Pictures
57. The Man Without a Temperament
58. Revelations
59. The Escape
60. Bank Holiday

Villa Isola Bella, Menton: 1920-1921
61. The Young Girl
62. The Singing Lesson
63. The Stranger
64. Miss Brill
65. Poison
66. The Lady’s Maid
67. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
68. Life of Ma Parker

Magazine Stories for the Sphere: Montana-sur-Sierre, 1921
69. Sixpence
70. Mr and Mrs Dove
71. An Ideal Family
72. Her First Ball
73. Marriage à la Mode

Last Stories: Switzerland and Paris, 1921-1922
74. At the Bay
75. The Voyage
76. A Married Man’s Story
77. The Garden Party
78. The Doll’s House
79. Six Years After
80. Weak Heart
81. The Doves’ Nest
82. Taking The Veil
83. The Fly
84. Honeymoon
85. The Canary

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Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Fiction: 1898-1915 (2013)

The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Vincent O'Sullivan. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 1 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. [2012a]

Contents:

1898
1. Enna Blake
1899
2. A Happy Christmas Eve
1901
3. The Great Examination
1903
4. The Pine Tree, The Sparrows, and You and I
5. Misunderstood
6. She
7. A True Tale
8. ‘It was a big bare house’
9. ‘I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned’
10. Two Ideas with One Moral
1904
11. Die Einsame (The Lonely One)
12. Your Birthday
13. One Day
1905
14. About Pat
1906
15. My Potplants
16. Les Deux Étrangères
17. Juliet
18. ‘I was never happy’, Huia said
19. Memories
20. The Tale of the Three
1907
21. L’Incendie
22. Vignette: Summer in Winter
23. Summer Idyll
24. Night Came Swiftly
25. She and the Boy
26. or the Story of the Funny-Old-Thing
27. ‘She unpacked her box’
28. Vignettes
29. Vignette: Through the Autumn Afternoon
30. Silhouettes
31. In a Café
32. In the Botanical Gardens
33. Leves Amores
34. The Story of Pearl Button
35. Vignette: Sunset Tuesday
36. ‘On waking next morning’
37. An Attempt
38. Vignette: Westminster Cathedral
39. ‘She sat on the broad window-sill’
40. The Man, the Monkey and the Mask
1908
41. The Education of Audrey
42. Juliette Delacour
43. The Unexpected Must Happen
44. Vignette: By the Sea
45. In Summer
46. The Yellow Chrysanthemum
47. The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations
48. Vignette: They are a ridiculous company
49. The Thoughtful Child
50. Rewa
51. The Tiredness of Rosabel
52. Study: The Death of a Rose
53. Youth and Age
54. Vignette: I look out through the window
55. Almost a Tragedy: The Cars on Lambton Quay
1909
56. A God, One Day on Mount Olympus
57. ‘He met her again on the Pier at Eastbourne’
58. Prose
59. His Sister’s Keeper
1910
60. The Child-Who-Was-Tired
61. Germans at Meat
62. Mary
63. The Baron
64. The Luft Bad
65. At ‘Lehmann’s’
66. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
67. The Sister of the Baroness
68. Frau Fischer
69. A Fairy Story
1911
70. A Birthday
71. The Modern Soul
72. The Festival of the Coronation
73. The Journey to Bruges
74. Being a Truthful Adventure
75. The Advanced Lady
76. The Swing of the Pendulum
77. A Blaze
78. The Green Tree: A Fairy Story
1912
79. A Marriage of Passion
80. At the Club
81. The Woman at the Store
82. Green Goggles
83. Tales of a Courtyard
84. How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped
85. Spring in a Dream
86. New Dresses
87. The Little Girl
88. The House
89. Old Cockatoo Curl
1913
90. Ole Underwood
91. Epilogue I: Pension Seguin
92. Millie
93. Epilogue II
94. Bains Turcs
95. Old Tar
96. Maata
97. Young Country
98. Rose Eagle
1914
99. Something Childish But Very Natural
100. KT and her sister
101. Hydrangeas
102. ‘There is always something wonderfully touching’
1915
103. Brave Love
104. The Little Governess
105. The Beautiful Miss Richardson
106. Spring Pictures
107. Rough Sketch
108. An Indiscreet Journey
109. Autumns: I
110. Autumns: II
111. Stay-laces
112. The Dark Hollow
113. The Aloe
Appendix A: Plan of Maata

Katherine Mansfield: The Complete Fiction: 1916-1922 (2012)

The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922. Ed. Gerri Kimber & Vincent O'Sullivan. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 2 of 4. Series Editor: Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. [2012b]

Contents:

1916
1. That Woman
2. Last Words to Youth
3. The Laurels
1917
4. The Lost Battle
5. Toots
6. Two Tuppenny Ones Please
7. Late at Night
8. The Black Cap
9. In Confidence
10. The Common Round
11. A Pic-Nic
12. Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day
13. Prelude
14. Feuille d’Album
15. A Dill Pickle
16. Love-Lies-Bleeding
1918
17. Je ne parle pas français
18. Sun and Moon
19. Bliss
20. The Boy with the Jackdaw
21. To the Last Moment
22. Carnation
23. Love in Autumn
24. ‘Did M. wear a grey dressing gown’
25. ‘A stupid, silly poem’
26. Keeping Up
27. ‘Don’t you think it would be marvellous’
1919
28. A Suburban Fairy Tale
29. ‘It was neither dark nor light in the cabin’
30. See Saw
31. Pictures
32. ‘R’s first husband was a pawnbroker’
1920
33. Late Spring
34. This Flower
35. Psychology
36. The Man Without a Temperament
37. The Wrong House
38. Revelations
39. The Escape
40. A Dance At The – – –
41. Bank Holiday
42. The Wind Blows
43. The Young Girl
44. The Singing Lesson
45. The Stranger
46. Miss Brill
47. Poison
48. The Lady’s Maid
49. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
50. There is no Answer
51. You love me – still?
52. Tea on the Train
1921
53. Life of Ma Parker
54. ‘After a succession of idle, careless, or clumsy, or unwilling little boys’
55. Mr and Mrs Dove
56. Susannah
57. Such a Sweet Old Lady
58. Sixpence
59. An Ideal Family
60. Hat with a Feather
61. Her First Ball
62. Marriage à la Mode
63. Widowed
64. At the Bay
65. The Voyage
66. A Married Man’s Story
67. Second Violin
68. All Serene!
69. By Moonlight
70. The Garden Party
71. The Doll’s House
72. Six Years After
73. Weak Heart
74. Daphne
75. ‘I suppose, doctor’
76. ‘Carriages are not allowed’
77. ‘It fell so softly, so gently’
78. ‘On her way back to the garden’
79. ‘What was there about the little house’
80. The Pessimist
81. The Sisters
82. ‘Lucien’s mother was a dressmaker’
83. Honesty
1922
84. The Doves’ Nest
85. A Cup of Tea
86. Taking the Veil
87. Mr and Mrs Williams
88. The Fly
89. Confidences
90. The New Baby
91. ‘Have you seen my cosmias dear?’
92. A Man and His Dog
93. Honeymoon
94. It was the late afternoon
95. A Family Dance
96. ‘Behind the hotel – à deux pas de l’hotel’
97. Father and the Girls
98. My Darling
99. The Lily
100. Our Hilda
101. ‘One great advantage’
102. ‘There are certain human beings’
103. A Bad Idea
104. The Canary

Katherine Mansfield: The Complete Works (4 vols: 2012-2016)

Stories:

1911 = In a German Pension
1920 = Bliss and Other Stories
1922 = The Garden Party and Other Stories
1923 = The Doves's Nest and Other Stories
1924 = Something Childish and Other Stories
1930 = The Aloe
1974a = The Complete Stories
1974b = Undiscovered Country
1984 = The Stories: Definitive Edition
2012a = The Collected Fiction: 1898-1915
2012b = The Collected Fiction: 1916-1922

1. Enna Blake (1898) [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
2. A Happy Christmas Eve (1899) [1984] [2012a]
3. The Great Examination (1901) [2012a]
4. The Pine Tree, The Sparrows, and You and I (1903) [2012a]
5. Misunderstood (1903) [2012a]
6. She (1903) [2012a]
7. A True Tale (1903) [2012a]
8. ‘It was a big bare house’ (1903) [2012a]
9. ‘I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned’ (1903) [2012a]
10. Two Ideas with One Moral (1903) [2012a]
11. Die Einsame (The Lonely One) [1984] (1904) [2012a]
12. Your Birthday (1904) [2012a]
13. One Day (1904) [2012a]
14. About Pat (1905) [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
15. My Potplants (1906) [2012a]
16. Les Deux Étrangères (1906) [2012a]
17. Juliet (1906) [2012a]
18. 'I was never happy’, Huia said (1906) [2012a]
19. Memories (1906) [2012a]
20. The Tale of the Three (1906) [2012a]
21. L’Incendie (1907) [2012a]
22. Vignette: Summer in Winter (1907) [2012a]
23. Summer Idyll (1907) [2012a]
24. Night Came Swiftly (1907) [2012a]
25. She and the Boy or the Story of the Funny-Old-Thing (1907) [2012a]
26. ‘She unpacked her box’ (1907) [2012a]
27. Vignettes (1907) [2012a]
28. Vignette: Through the Autumn Afternoon (1907) [2012a]
29. Silhouettes (1907) [2012a]
30. In a Café (1907) [1984] [2012a]
31. In the Botanical Gardens (1907) [2012a]
32. Leves Amores (1907) [2012a]
33. The Story of Pearl Button (1907) [2012a]
34. Vignette: Sunset Tuesday (1907) [2012a]
35. ‘On waking next morning’ (1907) [2012a]
36. An Attempt (1907) [2012a]
37. Vignette: Westminster Cathedral (1907) [2012a]
38. ‘She sat on the broad window-sill’ (1907) [2012a]
39. The Man, the Monkey and the Mask (1907) [2012a]
40. The Education of Audrey [1984] (1908) [2012a]
41. Juliette Delacour (1908) [2012a]
42. The Unexpected Must Happen (1908) [2012a]
43. Vignette: By the Sea (1908) [2012a]
44. In Summer (1908) [2012a]
45. The Yellow Chrysanthemum (1908) [2012a]
46. The Thoughtful Child. Her Literary Aspirations (1908) [2012a]
47. Vignette: They are a ridiculous company (1908) [2012a]
48. The Thoughtful Child (1908) [2012a]
49. Rewa (1908) [2012a]
50. The Tiredness of Rosabel (1908) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
51. Study: The Death of a Rose (1908) [2012a]
52. Youth and Age (1908) [2012a]
53. Vignette: I look out through the window (1908) [2012a]
54. Almost a Tragedy: The Cars on Lambton Quay (1908) [2012a]
55. A God, One Day on Mount Olympus (1909) [2012a]
56. ‘He met her again on the Pier at Eastbourne’ (1909) [2012a]
57. Prose (1909) [2012a]
58. His Sister’s Keeper (1909) [2012a]
59. The Child-Who-Was-Tired (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
60. Germans at Meat (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
61. Mary (1910) [2012a]
62. The Baron (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
63. The Luft Bad [aka "The Luftbad"] (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
64. At ‘Lehmann’s’ (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
65. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
66. The Sister of the Baroness (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
67. Frau Fischer (1910) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
68. A Fairy Story (1910) [2012a]
69. A Birthday (1911) [1911] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
70. The Modern Soul (1911) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
71. The Festival of the Coronation [aka "The Festival of the Coronation (with apologies to Theocritus)"] (1911) [1984] [2012a]
72. The Journey to Bruges (1911) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
73. Being a Truthful Adventure [aka "A Truthful Adventure"] (1911) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
74. The Advanced Lady (1911) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
75. The Swing of the Pendulum (1911) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
76. A Blaze (1911) [1911] [1984] [2012a]
77. The Green Tree: A Fairy Story (1911) [2012a]
78. A Marriage of Passion (1912) [2012a]
79. At the Club (1912) [2012a]
80. Two Parodies: Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells (1912) [1984]
81. The Woman at the Store (1912) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
82. Green Goggles (1912) [1984] [2012a]
83. Tales of a Courtyard (1912) [2012a]
84. How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (1912) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
85. Spring in a Dream (1912) [2012a]
86. New Dresses (1912) [1924] [1974b] [2012a]
87. The Little Girl (1912) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
88. The House (1912) [2012a]
89. Old Cockatoo Curl (1912) [1984] [2012a]
90. Ole Underwood (1913) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
91. Epilogue I: Pension Seguin [aka "Pension Séguin"] (1913) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
92. Millie (1913) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012a]
93. Epilogue II: Violet [aka "Violet"] (1913) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
94. Epilogue III: Bains Turcs [aka "Bains Turcs"] (1913) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
95. Old Tar (1913) [1974b] [2012a]
96. Maata (1913) [1974b] [2012a]
97. Young Country (1913) [2012a]
98. Rose Eagle (1913) [1974b] [2012a]
99. Something Childish But Very Natural (1914) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
100. KT and her sister (1914) [2012a]
101. Hydrangeas (1914) [2012a]
102. ‘There is always something wonderfully touching’ (1914) [2012a]
103. Brave Love (1915) [1974a] [2012a]
104. The Little Governess (1915) [1920] [1984] [2012a]
105. The Beautiful Miss Richardson (1915) [2012a]
106. Spring Pictures (1915) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
107. Rough Sketch (1915) [2012a]
108. An Indiscreet Journey (1915) [1924] [1984] [2012a]
109. Autumns: I [aka "The Apple Tree"] (1915) [1974b] [2012a]
110. Autumns: II [aka "The Wind Blows"] (1915) [1920] [1974b] [1984] [2012a / 2012b]
111. Stay-laces (1915) [1984] [2012a]
112. The Dark Hollow (1915) [2012a]
113. The Aloe (1915) [1930] [2012a]
114. That Woman (1916) [1974b] [2012b]
115. Last Words to Youth (1916) [2012b]
116. The Laurels (1916) [2012b]
117. The Lost Battle [aka "The Lost Battle (fragment of Geneva)"] (1917) [1984] [2012b]
118. Toots (1917) [2012b]
119. Two Tuppenny Ones Please (1917) [1924] [1984] [2012b]
120. Late at Night (1917) [1984] [2012b]
121. The Black Cap (1917) [1924] [1984] [2012b]
122. In Confidence (1917) [1984] [2012b]
123. The Common Round (1917) [2012b]
124. A Pic-Nic (1917) [1984] [2012b]
125. Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day (1917) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
126. Prelude (1917) [1920] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
127. Feuille d’Album (1917) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
128. A Dill Pickle (1917) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
129. Love-Lies-Bleeding (1917) [1974b] [2012b]
130. Je ne parle pas français (1918) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
131. Sun and Moon (1918) [1920] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
132. Bliss (1918) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
133. The Boy with the Jackdaw (1918) [2012b]
134. To the Last Moment (1918) [2012b]
135. Carnation (1918) [1924] [1984] [2012b]
136. Love in Autumn (1918) [2012b]
137. ‘Did M. wear a grey dressing gown’ (1918) [2012b]
138. ‘A stupid, silly poem’ (1918) [2012b]
139. Keeping Up (1918) [2012b]
140. ‘Don’t you think it would be marvellous’ (1918) [2012b]
141. A Suburban Fairy Tale (1919) [1924] [2012b]
142. ‘It was neither dark nor light in the cabin’ (1919) [2012b]
143. See Saw (1919) [1924] [2012b]
144. Pictures (1919) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
145. ‘R’s first husband was a pawnbroker’ (1919) [2012b]
146. Late Spring (1920) [2012b]
147. This Flower (1920) [1924] [2012b]
148. Psychology (1920) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
149. The Man Without a Temperament (1920) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
150. The Wrong House (1920) [1924] [1974b] [2012b]
151. Revelations (1920) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
152. The Escape (1920) [1920] [1984] [2012b]
153. A Dance At The – – – [aka "A Dance"] (1920) [1974b] [2012b]
154. Bank Holiday (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
155. The Young Girl (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
156. The Singing Lesson (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
157. The Stranger (1920) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
158. Miss Brill (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
159. Poison (1920) [1924] [1984] [2012b]
160. The Lady’s Maid (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
161. The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1920) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
162. There is no Answer (1920) [2012b]
163. You love me – still? (1920) [2012b]
164. Tea on the Train (1920) [2012b]
165. Life of Ma Parker (1921) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
166. ‘After a succession of idle, careless, or clumsy, or unwilling little boys’ [aka "The Office Boy"] (1921) [1974b] [2012b]
167. Mr and Mrs Dove (1921) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
168. Susannah (1921) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
169. Such a Sweet Old Lady (1921) [1923] [2012b]
170. Sixpence (1921) [1924] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
171. An Ideal Family (1921) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
172. Hat with a Feather (1921) [2012b]
173. Her First Ball (1921) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
174. Marriage à la Mode (1921) [1922] [1984] [2012b]
175. Widowed (1921) [1923] [2012b]
176. At the Bay (1921) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
177. The Voyage (1921) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
178. A Married Man’s Story (1921) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
179. Second Violin (1921) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
180. All Serene! (1921) [1923] [2012b]
181. By Moonlight (1921) [2012b]
182. The Garden Party (1921) [1922] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
183. The Doll’s House (1921) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
184. Six Years After (1921) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
185. Weak Heart (1921) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
186. Daphne (1921) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
187. ‘I suppose, doctor’ (1921) [2012b]
188. ‘Carriages are not allowed’ (1921) [2012b]
189. ‘It fell so softly, so gently’ (1921) [2012b]
190. ‘On her way back to the garden’ [aka "The Skerritt Girl"] (1921) [1974b] [2012b]
191. ‘What was there about the little house’ (1921) [2012b]
192. The Pessimist (1921) [2012b]
193. The Sisters [aka "Sisters"] (1921) [1974b] [2012b]
194. ‘Lucien’s mother was a dressmaker’ (1921) [2012b]
195. Honesty (1921) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
196. The Doves’ Nest (1922) [1923] [1984] [2012b]
197. A Cup of Tea (1922) [1923] [2012b]
198. Taking the Veil (1922) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
199. Mr and Mrs Williams (1922) [1923] [2012b]
200. The Fly (1922) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]
201. Confidences (1922) [2012b]
202. The New Baby (1922) [1974b] [2012b]
203. ‘Have you seen my cosmias dear?’ [aka "Aunt Fan"] (1922) [1974b] [2012b]
204. A Man and His Dog (1922) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
205. Honeymoon (1922) [1923] [1984] [2012b]
206. It was the late afternoon (1922) [2012b]
207. A Family Dance (1922) [2012b]
208. 'Behind the hotel – à deux pas de l’hotel’ (1922) [2012b]
209. Father and the Girls (1922) [1923] [2012b]
210. My Darling (1922) [2012b]
211. The Lily (1922) [2012b]
212. Our Hilda (1922) [2012b]
213. ‘One great advantage’ (1922) [2012b]
214. ‘There are certain human beings’ (1922) [2012b]
215. A Bad Idea (1922) [1923] [1974b] [2012b]
216. The Canary (1922) [1923] [1974b] [1984] [2012b]

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Vincent O'Sullivan: Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand (1988)

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