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 this year)
- 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
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
Menton Symposium Directions
18 September 2009
For those lucky enough to be attending the Symposium in Menton, France next week we wish to confirm the address of the Villa Maria Serena:
21, Promenade Reine Astrid
06500 Menton
Menton Brochure
25 August 2009
Download your copy of the flyer and poster that have been produced and distributed in Menton and the surrounding region. Feel free to forward/use as appropriate, including on websites, to publicise "New Zealand Week" in Menton (21-26 September).
Menton Social Calendar
25 August 2009
Courtesy of the New Zealand Embassy a social events calendar is available for the NZ week in Menton in September.
Menton Event Gaining Momentum
18 August 2009
SYMPOSIUM DINNER REGISTRATION NOW LIVE!
The Symposium dinner will take place on Thursday 24 September 7.30 pm for 8 pm. The venue is the exclusive Hotel Napoleon, 29 Porte de France, overlooking the Mediterranean in Menton, which has a highly regarded restaurant:
A NEW ARTISTIC ADDITION TO THE WEBSITE!
5 August 2009
"While reading the Katherine Mansfield Journals some words and sentences triggered glimpses in my mind like stars in the very dark of the night. I decided to capture these sparkles of truth through miniature images I made with an Exacto knife. This has culminated, 17 years later, in my book My Life after Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp which I am happy to share with mansfield followers everywhere." Rachel Bernard
KMS NEWSLETTER REMINDER
14 July 2009
A reminder that the deadline for submitting to the newsletter for the August Issue is 31 July 2009. We invite any and all contributions. Please send us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions. If there is something we can provide and are not, tell us. How can we make the Society more appealing? Tell us what Mansfield's work means to you.
KMS, in conjunction with Wellington City Council and the Wellington Sculpture Trust, can announce that one of its founding projects is underway. When formed, in December 2008, the Society agreed to pursue a memorial sculpture of/to Katherine Mansfield. Our thanks go to Sarah Sandley & Vincent O'Sullivan for their efforts. Read the Press Release from WCC
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973)
13 July 2009
Movies / Television "A Picture of Katherine Mansfield" (1973)
MENTON SYMPOSIUM
12 July 2009
‘CELEBRATING KATHERINE MANSFIELD'
Oh, could I bring the flowers, the air the whole heavenly climate as well: this darling little town, these mountains - It is simply a small jewel - Menton - and its band in the jardins publiques with the ruffled pansy beds - the white donkeys standing meek - tied to a pole, the donkey women in black pleated dresses with flat funny hats. All, all is so terribly attractive. (Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry, 20 April 1920).
KMS INAUGURAL ESSAY PRIZE
11 July 2009
THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY IS DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE ITS INAUGURAL ESSAY PRIZE
On the theme of: KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND D. H. LAWRENCE
The winner will receive a cash prize of £300 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies (the peer-reviewed journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society).
Highly commended essays will also be considered for publication in either Katherine Mansfield Studies orthe Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies.
Details for Entry Here
Mail List Announcement
10 July 2009
We are getting a few bounces when we send out our regular email KM news bulletins to members. Please ensure that you have supplied us with your current/active email address. If you have not received an email from us within the last week please email us with an active address and your full name so we can update our records and ensure you get up-to-date email bulletins and advance notices. If you are not a member and wish to be kept up to date with all KM news and activity worldwide, please support us and take out a membership!