Download or read book Katherine Mansfield written by A. Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.