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KMS Newsletter Issue 12 ISSN 2040-2597 (Online) NEWSLETTER Issue 20 April 2015 Published by the Katherine Mansfield Society, Bath, England Illustrated Postcard c. 1915/16 Alexander Turnbull Library ref. MS-Papers-11326-016 Inside: De petits itinéraires littéraires autour de Katherine Mansfield by Bernard Bosque, KMS News and competition results, page 2 page 14 Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism Margaret Scott Obituary (continued) by C. by Helen Rydstrand, page 3 K. Stead, page 15 An Indiscreet Journey : KM and Francis Carco Announcement : KM Essay Prize, page 16 in Gray by Gerri Kimber, page 7 The Mansfield Garden Party by Martin Announcement : Katherine Mansfield, Leslie Griffiths, page 17 Beauchamp & World War One, Belgium, September, page 11 Announcement : Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Bloom Berries’ in May, page 21 2 Issue 20 April 2015 It has been a great pleasure editing the KMS newsletter for the first time. To take over from Jenny McDonnell was daunting: Jenny has been a fabulous editor and is a hard act to follow. However, I think we have an exciting April edition for you and to keep us up to date with international events we begin with Helen Rydstrand’s report on the conference Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism, held in Sydney in January 2015. Helen is currently completing her doctoral thesis at UNSW and presented Modernist aesthetics and antipodean nostalgia: Mansfield’s rhythm in theory and practice at the Sydney conference. Also, Dr Gerri Kimber gives us ‘An Indiscreet Journey’: Katherine Mansfield and Francis Carco in Gray, a report on the conference that took place in February near Dijon in France. As a bonus we even have an article in French: Bernard Bosque’s take on the same conference. Further, we have a selection of photographs from the recent Hamilton fundraiser for the Mansfield Garden and an interview with event organiser Marilyn Yeoman. Also readers will see that we have several announcements pertaining to the international symposium on Leslie Beauchamp and World War One, to be held in September in Belgium. We also have news of the conference Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Bloom Berries’ to be held in Chicago, Illinois in May and we provide ordering details for several new books including Gerri Kimber’s Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story and Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (ordering details for the latter can be found on pages 5 and 6 of this newsletter). Finally, please be aware that your contributions are most welcome, and that these can be sent to [email protected] Martin Griffiths Editor, Katherine Mansfield Society Newsletter Competition : We had a good response to our competition question : What is the name of the library in Wellington where Margaret Scott worked and which houses the world’s largest collection of Mansfield material ? Janet Riemenschneider-Kemp correctly named the Alexander Turnbull Library and receives a copy of Scott’s edition of the Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. The prize for the August competition is a copy of my CD ‘Cello for a Song’ which features music by Arnold Trowell. To be in the draw tell us how many KMS newsletters have been published since December 2008. Send answers to: [email protected] Correction KMS newsletter would like to offer an apology for an error in the December edition on page 15: Margaret Scott’s daughter Kate (not Kathleen) was christened Katherine, after Mansfield. She is a Professor of Psychological Medicine at Otago University. Her son Jonathan is a Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Note : the handwritten text on the postcard on the previous page reads, “This is the kind of place that would be so nice, Bogey. You observe we are driving from the sea; and I am sitting with my back to you and the horse to watch the waves. Tig” 1 3 Issue 20 April 2015 Katherine Mansfield Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Conference, 29 January 2015 Helen Rydstrand At the end of January I was delighted to welcome a wonderful group of Mansfield scholars to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, for the Society’s second postgraduate (and now early career researcher) event, jointly hosted with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia. Appropriately for our location, the day focused on Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism. It was a full and interesting day, opened in great style with a keynote presentation from Emeritus Professor Angela Smith (Stirling), entitled ‘“I am a very MODERN woman”: modernity, modernism and the work of Katherine Mansfield and Margaret Preston’. Professor Smith’s stimulating and wide-ranging paper considered how both Mansfield’s and Preston’s encounters with European modernism’s disruption of realist assumptions resonated with their earlier experience of the indigenous art of New Zealand and Australia respectively. Professor Smith went on to explore how the writer and the painter each balanced design and looseness in their work, delivering sensitive and compelling analyses of both paintings and stories, in particular the deep structure and themes of entrapment in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’. Three panels of eight diverse papers followed the keynote address, featuring speakers hailing from China, New Zealand and around Australia. In the first panel, Tracy Miao (Auckland) explored Mansfield’s desire for wildness through her depictions of gardens and nature. Next, Yingjie Cheng (Soochow) gave an introduction to Mansfield’s reception in China, before turning to an examination of ‘Woman at the Store’. The final paper for the session was given by Anna Plumridge (Wellington), who drew on fascinating material that couldn’t be included in her new edition of The Urewera Notebook to explore Mansfield’s responses to her interactions with Maori children during that trip. After lunch, Alex Nichols (La Trobe) investigated Mansfield’s influence by the performance culture that she encountered on her first return to London, looking at the young writer’s ‘impression’ of Max Reinhardt’s silent play Sumurûn recently uncovered in the Turnbull Library’s collection. From this, Dr. Elizabeth Pender (UNSW) turned to a close focus on Mansfield’s approach to caricature and sympathy in ‘Life of Ma Parker’. The 2 4 Issue 20 April 2015 last paper of that panel was my own, on Mansfield’s theory and practice of rhythm, in an essay she co-authored with Murry, and in ‘At the Bay’ and ‘Prelude’. The third panel featured two papers on ‘Bliss’, the first given by Rose Onans (Monash) on the story’s subversive exploration of happiness. The final paper came from Tanya Thaweeskulchai (UNSW), who interrogated the function of the sublime in that exquisite image of Bertha’s pear tree. The conference closed with a flipped workshop with Dr. Sarah Ailwood (Canberra), who had posted her paper, ‘The Case for Mansfield’s Influence on Australian Literary Culture’, online for attendees to view in advance, which enabled the group to spend an hour discussing this and related questions. Dr. Ailwood was even able to join us, via Skype, from her home in Hong Kong. The session included a discussion of Sarah’s innovative and varied methodology, and helped bring into focus connections between the papers and the idea of antipodean modernism in the day’s on-going discussions – the ideal end to a thought-provoking day! I am extremely grateful to those who helped to make the day happen: especially my co- organisers Dr. Jessica Gildersleeve, Chris Oakey and Amy Parish, as well as both the Society and the Modernism Centre. Finally, I wish to warmly thank all speakers and attendees for coming to Sydney to share research, ideas, and enthusiasm for Mansfield’s work. It was a great pleasure to spend the day with you all! 5 Issue 20 April 2015 Issue 20 April 2015 6 Order Form Delivery Address Method of Payment Name Please enter your method of payment below. Institution/Branch I enclose a cheque for £ payable to Edinburgh University Press Address Please send me a pro-forma invoice Please charge my Maestro/Mastercard/Visa/American Express Postcode Country Card No. / / / Tel. 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