Join the Katherine Mansfield Society
Patron: Dame Jacqueline Wilson
Annual membership starts from date of joining and includes the following benefits:
- Free copy of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the Society’s prestigious annual journal published by Edinburgh University Press, including free on-line access (worth £25).
- Three on-line newsletters per year, packed with information, news, reviews and much more.
- Regular email bulletins with the latest news on anything related to KM and/or the Society (over 100 sent in 2009)
- Reduced price fees for all KMS conferences.
- Special member offers.
- In addition, your membership fee goes to support the work of the KMS, a charitable organisation, which aims to promote worldwide awareness of Katherine Mansfield and her work. We have many projects in the pipeline, including collaboration on a Mansfield sculpture in her home town of Wellington, the setting up of international scholarships, and the continuing enhancement of our website, making it the world’s most comprehensive on-line information hub on anything and everything to do with Katherine Mansfield. If you enjoy browsing through our website, the result of hundreds of hours of work by volunteers, please show your support by becoming a member.
Latest News
New book by Jenny McDonnell - Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace
10 August 2010
Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public
by Jenny McDonnell
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
ISBN: 978-0230234796, 232 pages
Release date: 4 August 2010
KMS members are entitled to a huge 50% discount if they order online before the end of September 2010.
Click here for more details
Circulating Genius By Sydney Janet Kaplan
25 July 2010
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence
by Sydney Janet Kaplan, Professor of English at the University of Washington
On The Rocks by Amy Rosenthal
13 July 2010
On the Rocks is Amy Rosenthal’s brilliantly funny play based on the episode in 1916 where Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry spent a few fraught weeks in Cornwall with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda. It was a triumphant success at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 2008 and is currently playing at the Court Theatre, Christchurch, NZ, 17 June – 17 July 2010. Read KMS member Melissa C. Reimer’s wonderful review and detailed interview with the cast here.
Essay Prize 2011
11 July 2010
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its second annual prize essay competition, open to all, and which for 2011 will be on the subject of:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND THE ARTS
The Katherine Mansfield Society Inaugural Birthday Lecture
12 June 2010
We are delighted to announce that our Patron, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, will be attending this prestigious KMS event in central London at New Zealand House, generously supported by the New Zealand High Commission. The Penthouse is on the top floor of New Zealand House and commands the best 360 degree views across London after the London Eye! A not-to-be-missed event.
Results of the 2010 Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition
4 June 2010
The Katherine Mansfield Society is delighted to announce the results of its first annual international essay prize competition, which attracted a broad range of high quality entries on the subject of ‘Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence’. The judges – C. K. Stead and Andrew Harrison, chaired by Susan Reid – faced a difficult challenge since, as Reid explains, ‘It was impossible to select just one winner from this outstanding selection, so we have awarded a joint first prize, to two very different but equally engaging essays’.
The two winning entries are by Linda Lappin – on ‘A Parallel Quest’ for an authentic self, which led both writers through similar stages of exploration of ancient religions and philosophies – and by Kirsty Martin, on how Lawrence and Mansfield approached the difficulties of writing about happiness. The winners will each receive a prize of £150 and their essays will be published in the journal of Katherine Mansfield Studies (Volume 2), 2010, published by Edinburgh University Press. The judges have also commended as a close runner up, an entry by Elise Brault, which examines marginality in the poetry of Mansfield and Lawrence.
Gerri Kimber, Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society, said that ‘the response to this essay competition is enormously encouraging for the growing field of Mansfield studies, demonstrating the quality of scholarship and opening up new lines of inquiry’. She also praised the efforts of Susan Reid, who has worked tirelessly on this project over the last year.
Details of the 2011 Katherine Mansfield Society essay prize competition will be announced shortly.
Katherine Mansfield Play, New Zealand Premiere
29 May 2010
The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, will be staging Amy Rosenthal’s play On the Rocks, for a month from 17 June–19 July 2010. This play, which concerns the relationship between Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, D H Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence, played to packed houses in London in 2008. Amy is the daughter of British actress Maureen Lipmann and the playwright Jack Rosenthal. For more details on the theatre/play please click here.
Conference Announcement: Cambridge 2011
26 May 2010
Join us for the next Katherine Mansfield Society conference to be held at the University of Cambridge in March 2011. This two-day residential conference will focus on Mansfield and modernism, exploring the exchanges and dialogues between Mansfield and her contemporaries, and the interchange between her writing and other disciplines.
We invite papers from anyone with an interest in Katherine Mansfield and/or modernism. Professor Laura Marcus is confirmed as a keynote speaker, and will be discussing Mansfield and cinema. The author Ali Smith has kindly agreed to present a 'discursive short story'.
Announcements on further keynotes and speakers will be coming soon!
Our very own KMS patron, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, will be giving our post-dinner talk, following dinner in Newnham College
Please see the Conference Page for more details. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 20 September 2010.
Paul Reynolds
26 May 2010
It is with great sadness that we report the untimely death yesterday of Paul Reynolds in New Zealand. It was Paul who originally contacted the Society a year ago and gave us the initial inspiration and ideas for the KM Today Blog. He was supportive of all our endeavours and the Society has lost a friend.
For more information please see the posting on Graham Beattie’s blog
UPDATED: RMIT Melbourne 2010
9 April 2010
Registration is now open for the "Katherine Mansfield, the Underworld and the Blooms Berries" Symposium at RMIT on 4-5 June. We have an exciting programme featuring keynote addresses by Professor Sue Thomas and KMS Honorary President Vincent O'Sullivan, presentations by Susannah Fullerton and Penelope Jackson and a dramatic performance of "Something Childish but Very Natural". We hope to welcome many KMS members and Mansfield enthusiasts to Melbourne in June.
Lecture: ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group’ by Gerri Kimber
14 February 2010
Friday 12th March 2010 at 7.30pm Westonbirt School, Tetbury, Glos, GL8 8QG
Katherine Mansfield and The Art of Performance
14 February 2010
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on Saturday 20 March 2010:
Jacqueline Wilson to be Patron of the Katherine Mansfield Society
14 January 2010
We are thrilled to announce that the internationally acclaimed author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, has offered to become the Society’s Patron. We can’t think of a better representative for our Society. Jacqueline Wilson’s admiration for Katherine Mansfield’s writing is well known and we hope that her enthusiasm for our favourite author will ensure future success for the Society and its aims.
KM TODAY: BLOG: OFFICIAL LAUNCH!
10 January 2010
What was Katherine Mansfield Thinking 90 Years ago?
KMS Newsletter 4 published
19 December 2009
Issue 4 of the Newsletter has just been published and emailed to all KMS members. 22 pages of news, views, an article on Menton with photos and much more! The newsletter is also available on a member’s only password-protected site.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD, THE ‘UNDERWORLD’ AND THE ‘BLOOMS BERRIES’
19 December 2009
A Symposium hosted by Writing And Literary Studies, School Of Media And Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 4-5 June 2010. For more information click here.
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal – Additional copies for sale
4 December 2009
We have extra copies of the newly published first volume of our journal for sale.
New Katherine Mansfield Chronology
2 December 2009
Thanks to the generosity of KMS member Vera Scarelli in Italy, our Society’s website now has a major new resource – a Katherine Mansfield chronology. Vera’s 78 page chronology spanning the years 1888-1923 - the result of months of research - encompasses several areas.
I SEEN THE LITTLE LAMP
25 November 2009
Monday 7 December, 6pm
City Gallery Wellington, Adam Auditorium (entry through rear entrance). Free entry.
New images now available
17 November 2009
Thanks to the generosity of Jan Kemp, acclaimed NZ poet and KMS member, we have a significant number of additions to our KM-related image database. These can all be accessed by going to our Resource section and then clicking on KM Image Collections. There are now images of Bandol, Bad Worishofen, the Menton exhibition of 2009 and Fontainebleau-Avon (the cemetery and the Prieure). This database of images is being constantly updated. Please do check back frequently!
In addition, we have now put up a gallery of photos from our Menton symposium. If you were fortunate enough to be there and have some photos of the event to share, please send them to us!
Read Rachel McAlpine’s play The Dazzling Night
1 November 2009
The KMS is thrilled to be able to showcase in our Resource section an unusual play about Katherine Mansfield, by Rachel McAlpine, called The Dazzling Night. Rachel is a novelist, poet, playwright, and author of about 30 books. From 1993-1995 she was Guest Professor at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto, Japan. There she learned to love the ritualistic, meditative, alien beauty of Noh theatre, and also met many Katherine Mansfield devotees. Writing The Dazzling Night, a Noh play about Katherine Mansfield, was the inevitable result. The play has had one successful production in Auckland. For information about other aspects of Rachel's life, see www.writing.co.nz.
Significant Addition to KMS Bibliography
30 October 2009
KMS member Ana Belén López Pérez from Spain, has sent us a significant number of additions to our Katherine Mansfield bibliography. We believe our KMS bibliography, initiated by Deputy-Chair Gerri Kimber with the kind donation of her entire 20 page PhD bibliography, and added to by several KMS members, is now the most significant anywhere on the web, and one of the most utilised items in our comprehensive Resource section. Many thanks to Ana for her generosity! If you would like to add to this resource, please send your additions to Gerri Kimber at kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org and join our roll call of honour!
BUY KMS CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR 2009
16 October 2009
We are delighted to be able to offer you the opportunity to purchase Katherine Mansfield Society Christmas cards for the forthcoming festive season. See our shop for inside and outside views of the card. The inside of the card says simply ‘Season's Greetings' and also features the following quotation:
‘The Daughter of the Watchsmith (La fille de l’horloger’) audio
7 October 2009
This word and music audio clip in both English and French called The Daughter of the Watchsmith (La fille de l'horloger), was devised by Rachel Bernard with a vocal piece co-arranged with Olivier Capparos. It is composed exclusively of extracts from Katherine Mansfield’s Journals. We are very grateful to Rachel for allowing free access to this marvellous artistic endeavour on our website. Click here to hear the audio clip.
‘OFFICIAL PHOTOS FROM MENTON NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW AND PURCHASE!'
6 October 2009
Many of the events which took place at the recent Katherine Mansfield week in Menton, 21-26 September 2009, were photographed by a professional photographer and KMS member Mary Gaudin. The photographs are absolutely stunning. Mary has generously offered the KMS 50% of the proceeds from the sale of all the Menton photos and related items. Click here to view and purchase. Mary Gaudin is a New Zealand photographer currently living in Montpellier in south-western France. As well as studying botany and landscape architecture in New Zealand, she studied photography in London. Her last article on the cuisine of Marseilles is in the current issue of the New Zealand travel magazine 'Inspire'. When Mary left New Zealand for Europe the only book she brought with her was The Garden Party and so as a KM devotee she was thrilled to be at the symposium in Menton.
More of Mary's images can be seen on her website : http://www.marygaudin.com/photography.html
KM is twittering
1 October 2009
KMS is Twittering. The twitter will contain something written by KM on that day in history. Click here and follow KM's twitters now
New Membership Fees
30 September 2009
The KMS Board has decided that its membership fees need to reflect more accurately the cost of providing services. Read more to find out how you can get one or even two years FREE membership
Menton feedback
29 September 2009
Gerri Janet Sue Delia Tracey and Sarah Dennis and all who contributed that was an amazing symposium - such a terrific venue, stunning, and an energetic, intellectual, engaging and creative symposium , well managed, and well planned team - and the building of scholarship -at every turn the sense we were all making something new here -bringing something sensitive into being - with the mediterranean as a backdrop and the sunshine - unforgettable - thank you so much. Gina
Organ dedicated to KM
27 September 2009
Those who attended the Menton celebrations in France, and in particular the Symposium, will be wending your way home armed with stories to share. For those of us who could not attend we wait with bated breath for all the news. In the meantime some news has filtered through and we understand the week and symposium were a great success. A special KMS thanks goes out in particular to Gerri Kimber and Sue Reid for their hard work and long hours before and during the celebrations. Ladies it would not have been possible without you. In the meantime we have uploaded some new photographs of a marvellous item donated by KM's sisters,
Qantas name plane after KM
22 September 2009
Qantas presented a plaque to the KMS after naming one of its new trans-tasman aircraft after Katherine Mansfield. Sarah Sandley, Chair of the KMS, was an invited guest of Qantas at the unveiling today. We will post pictures as soon as we have them.
Read more | See the TV One News story. | View the Plaque