'Hundreds of selves': the British Library's Katherine Mansfield letters

摘要

IN January 1920, Katherine Mansfield 'escaped' (as she declared in a letter to herhusband, John Middleton Murry) from the 'hell of isolation . . . the loneliness andfright' of the past few months, which had been spent at Ospedaletti on the ItalianRiviera. She was ill with tuberculosis, and her doctors had advised against anotherEnglish winter. Alone with her ever-faithful companion, Ida Baker-on whom she wasforced to depend completely, but who provoked in her an irritation which occasionallyexploded into hatred-she found herself leading the dufl, restricted life of an invalid.