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 2010)
- Reduced price fees for all KMS conferences.
- 20% discount on all books published by Edinburgh University Press
- 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
Kevin Boon's dramatisation of ‘The Garden Party’
17 November 2011
Kevin Boon has very kindly made available to Society members his dramatisation of ‘The Garden Party’. The Eastbourne Drama Group recently staged a production of this adaptation, directed by John Marwick (who has previously directed and performed at the 'Old Vic').
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol. 3
7 October 2011
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol 3, October 2011 is now available for purchase via our online shop.
New book announcement by Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Isabel-Maria Andres-Cuevas
7 October 2011
We are delighted to announce a new book publication by KMS member Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Isabel-Maria Andres-Cuevas, with a foreword by KMS President, Vincent O’Sullivan:
http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8448&pc=9
Invitation: Garden Party Book Launch
22 September 2011
You are cordially invited to the launch of Kevin Boon’s novella: Kezia (Based on Katherine Mansfield’s childhood in New Zealand)
When? Friday, December 2 at 5 p.m.
Where? Katherine Mansfield’s Birthplace, 25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon
Dress? A colourful sunhat and whatever else you wish.
KMS Newsletter 9 now available
2 September 2011
The latest KMS Newsletter is now available for memers to view online.
Katherine Mansfield on New Zealand Television
26 August 2011
This feature can be watched online, by following the "watch on demand" link at the webpage available at the link provided below. This may not be available for viewing outside NZ.
Woman of Words: Katherine Mansfield by Virginia King
16 June 2011
October Gallery Club Room, 24 Old Gloucester St., London WC1N 3AL
Saturday 25th June, 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE
6 June 2011
Conference and CFP: Slovakia 2012
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Essay Prize 2011 Winner and Essay Prize 2012
12 May 2011
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the name of the winner of its second international essay prize competition, on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Arts’. The judges, Kirsty Gunn and Vincent O’Sullivan, chaired by Angela Smith, were unanimous in their view that one of the essays, written by a postgraduate student, was outstanding in the originality of its approach and in the subtlety of its expression.
Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism edited by Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Susan Reid
11 May 2011
New selection of essays on Katherine Mansfield. Published by Continuum
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays edited by Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson.
11 May 2011
New volume of essays on Katherine Mansfield: Palgrave Macmillan
Katherine Mansfield is to once again grace the streets of Wellington
11 May 2011
‘Woman of Words’, a sculpture commemorating the life and work of Wellington and New Zealand’s most internationally recognised literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, has been selected for Midland Park on Lambton Quay in Wellington.
THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY’S SECOND BIRTHDAY LECTURE
3 April 2011
Sunday 16 October, 2pm, at The Open University in Camden, London.
Call for Submissions: Katherine Mansfield and the Fantastic
30 March 2011
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 4 OF
KMS Conference. Shaping Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries
26 January 2011
25-26th March 2011, Cambridge, UK
Registration is now open for the above conference. Please click here for more details and to access the booking form and poster. If you work in a university, we would be grateful if you could print a copy and display it in your Department.
The provisional conference schedule will be posted on this website shortly.
New publication: BLOOMSBURY WOMEN & THE WILD COLONIAL GIRL
22 November 2010
New publication: BLOOMSBURY WOMEN & THE WILD COLONIAL GIRL
2010 KMS Christmas Cards available now
4 November 2010
The KMS annual christmas card is now available to purchase through our online shop. Limited numbers of the 2009 Christmas card are also available.
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol. 2
1 November 2010
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol 2, October 2010 is now available for purchase via our online shop.
Inaugural birthday lecture: Updated
21 October 2010
Birthday Lecture 2010: Photos now available to view! The lecture itself is now available to purchase as a booklet here in our shop.
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
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