The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1 : : Letters to Correspondents A – J / / Claire Davison, Gerri Kimber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Davison, Claire,; Kimber, Gerri,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield : EECLKM
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.)

A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete correspondenceProvides accurate transcriptions that shed new light on the everyday, intimate world of Mansfield as a letter-writerOrganised A-Z, which foregrounds the lives and personalities of her correspondents, along with the various self-fictionalising games that the letter-writer playedProvides meticulous explanatory notes and rich contextual informationOffers extensive attention to the cultural and socio-political context of the correspondenceFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield’s life. A detailed introduction, together with biographical portraits for each correspondent, enhance the cultural and socio-historical context, while the letters themselves offer a detailed exposé of Mansfield’s life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of war and disease, to nature and the environment and fashions and food. The volume also reveals the intimacies of some of Mansfield’s most prized friendships.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction: The Study of Women in the Mongol Empire -- 1 Women and Politics from the Steppes to World Empire -- 2 Regents and Empresses: Women’s Rule in the Mongols’ World Empire -- 3 Political Involvement and Women’s Rule in the Ilkhanate -- 4 Women and the Economy of the Mongol Empire -- 5 Mongol Women’s Encounters with Eurasian Religions -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index