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Katherine Mansfield The Story-Teller Kathleen Jones December 2010 Hb 978 0 7486 4354 7 £25.00 528pp 234x156mm 55 b&w illustrations A vivid portrayal of one of the world’s foremost short story writers Description The Author ‘I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have been jealous of.’ Kathleen Jones is a biographer, Virginia Woolf journalist and writer of fiction, general non-fiction and poetry. Her other Weaving together intimate details from her letters and journals with the writings biographies include: a biography of her friends and acquaintances, this new literary biography creates a captivating of Catherine Cookson (1999); A drama of the fragile yet feisty Katherine Mansfield: her life, loves and passion for Passionate Sisterhood (1997), an writing. account of the lives of the women who lived with the ‘lake poets’, The story takes us beyond Mansfield’s death in 1923 to explore the life of her Learning not to be First (1991), a life of husband, John Middleton Murry – and his relationship with three further wives – the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, as he manipulated the posthumous publication of Mansfield’s unpublished work. which was Doris Lessing’s ‘book of the year’; and A Glorious Fame (1988), the Key Features life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. • The first new biography of Katherine Mansfield in 25 years • The first biography to take advantage of the complete transcriptions of the Readership diaries and letters of both Katherine and John Middleton Murry Trade and general readers, plus people interested in Katherine Mansfield and Selling Points John Middleton Murry. • Kathleen Jones is a bestselling literary biographer • The author has had access to private collections of material not available to other biographers, such as the University of Edinburgh's Middleton Murray archive • Supported by a full author tour, with appearances planned at literary festivals, bookshops and libraries across Britain • Press campaign targeting all major broadsheet, literary and specialist reviewers • Contains a never-before-seen photo of one of Mansfield's lovers Garnett – the Literary Studies first image of him as a young man to be published 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Press Pack for Kathleen Jones Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller (Edinburgh UP, 2010) 'I read it with huge enjoyment – I think it’s by far the best Katherine Mansfield biography yet – giving a truthful but still sympathetic portrait.' JacQueline WilsON, novelist & patron of the Katherine Mansfield Society Jones … writes with insight and verve, and an intelligent sympathy as her story is set out against those overlapping literary and social worlds the writer passes through … A mass of new material unavailable to earlier biographers makes this new telling richly detailed and compelling.' Vincent O’Sullivan, co-editor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield ‘I’m astonished at how much information there is in this book … people say – What, not another KM biography? – But in fact it’s a new story that hasn’t been told.' MARGARET SCOTT, Co-editor of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield ‘It is breathtaking. It’s a marvellous work, reads like a novel, dares to take its own risks, and above all, has immense imaginative range in carrying on Mansfield’s life after death … The way Kathleen carries it on into the lives of those who follow is extraordinary.’ FIONA KIDMAN, Novelist and President of Honour of the New Zealand Book Council 'A compelling narrative of a writer’s passion for her work, her growth to maturity and the extraordinary trajectory which took a plump, awkward, rebellious little girl from a rigidly conventional family halfway across the world and into a culture of artistic, social and sexual experimentation.' Helen DunmOre, Novelist 'Kathleen Jones conveys the living presence of Katherine Mansfield in the present tense, so that one feels, along with her all- time words, her continued presence. She conveys the full complexity of Mansfield's character with understanding and without bias – what a feat given how manifold it is. What Middleton Murry made of her has a parallelled fascination; the contrasts of the living reality and the purified legend, an ephemeral construct appropriately narrated in the past tense, were striking. A marvellous, innovative biography.' Lyndall Gordon, Biographer Catherine Cookson: The Biography (Constable, 1999) One of the UK’s top ten best-selling non-fiction books of the year ‘A bravura exercise in biography' CHARLOTTE CORY, Times Literary Supplement ‘Kathleen Jones is a skilled and subtle biographer' PAMELA NORRIS, Literary Review 'One of the strengths of this thoughtful, sympathetic biography is the way it reminds the reader of the destructive social insecurities of the recent past. It is a dramatic and unsettling story and Jones tells it with quiet tact.”' ANNE CHISHOLM, Sunday Telegraph A Passionate Sisterhood: The Lives of the Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the ‘Lake Poets’ (Constable, 1997) ‘Reading it becomes a gripping, almost addictive experience.’ ANGELA LEIGHTON, Times Literary Supplement ‘This is a fascinating, marvellous, utterly absorbing book.’ SUE LIMB, Independent on Sunday Learning Not to be First: The life of Christina Rossetti (OUP, 1991) ‘Best book of 1991’ DORIS LESSING, The Independent A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Bloomsbury, 1987) 'Kathleen Jones has written a gentle and sympathetic biography.' Jed BrendON-Tullett, Literary Review textbook Research Methods in Theatre and Performance Edited by Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson April 2011 Pb 978 0 7486 4157 4 £22.99 272pp 234x156mm 16 b&w illustrations Hb 978 0 7486 4158 1 £65.00 A critical digest of methodologies and a toolbox of adaptable methods Description The Author How have research methods and methodologies adapted to the growth in Baz Kershaw is Professorial Research theatre and performance studies in recent years? And how can students select Fellow in Performance at Warwick the best approach for their project? Here, 29 contributors tackle these questions University. His publications include head on. They explore archives, technology and creative practices as well The Politics of Performance (1992), The as selected specialist areas of research including history and historiography, Radical in Performance (1999) and scenography and visual theatre, the body in performance and applied theatre and Theatre Ecology: Environments and performance. Performance Events (2007). Helen Nicholson is Professor of Key Features Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. Her publications • Lots of case studies throughout the book: on working with paper and digital include Applied Drama: The Gift of archives, three different approaches to PhD research, applying technology and Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), using performance as research Making a Performance: Devising • Contributors include lecturers, academics and theatre and performance Histories and Contemporary Practices specialists (co-authored with Emma Govan and Selling Point Katie Normington) (Routledge, 2007) and Theatre & Education (Palgrave • Written in close association with the membership of TaPRA, the Theatre and Macmillan, 2009). Performance Research Association Series • Theatre and performance studies are enjoying a period of rapid growth • Research-Led Practice, Practice-Led Research in the Creative Arts has sold 700 Research Methods for the Arts and paperback copies worldwide since publication in June 2009 Humanities Readership Postgraduate students, researchers and academics in Theatre Studies, Performance Studies. Literary Studies 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com textbook Research Methods in Theatre and Performance Edited by Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson List of Contrbutors Gilli Bush-Bailey is senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London Steve Dixon is a Pro-Vice Chancellor, and Professor of Digital Performance at Brunel University in London Jules Dorey Richmond is a Senior Lecturer in Live Art & Performance at York St John University Simon Ellis is currently senior lecturer in dance (practice-based) at Roehampton University in London Ann Featherstone is a performance historian in the Department of Drama, University of Manchester Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair of Drama at the University of Manchester, England Jenny Hughes is a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester Helen Iball is Lecturer in Theatre Studies in the Workshop Theatre, School of English at the University of Leeds Baz Kershaw is Professorial Research Fellow in Performance at Warwick University Jenny Kidd is a Lecturer in Cultural Policy at City University London Adam J. Ledger is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Practice at the University of Hull Rosemary Lee is an Associate Artist at ResCen, Middlesex University Joslin McKinney is Lecturer in Scenography in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds Catherine McNamara joined Central School of Speech & Drama in 2003 as the Course Leader of the MA Applied Theatre Simon Murray is senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow Roberta Mock is Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Plymouth Helen Nicholson is professor of drama and theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London
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