The next Riversmeet Introduction to course features Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was the only writer of whom Virginia Woolf was jealous: "the only writing I have ever been jealous of". They were close friends, knew that their work was breaking through the barriers of the literature of the nineteenth century. At the same time, Mansfield also induced the power of disgust in Woolf: after their first meeting she wrote `that "she stinks like a - well civet cat that had taken to street walking".
That profound combination of attraction and recoil has continued to shape responses to Mansfield's writing in the 102 years since her death from tuberculosis.
In the four weeks of this course we will explore the power and depth of her writing, as we read through eight of her short stories.
April 8th: "Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding" and "The little governess"
April 15th: "The garden party" and "How Pearl Button was kidnapped”
There will be a break for Easter bank holiday week
April 29th: "The fly" and "The daughters of the late colonel"
May 6th: "At the bay" and "The woman at the store"
I would recommend the Oxford World's Classics edition of "Katherine Mansfield Selected Stories", edited by Angela Smith
The cost of the course is
£50