Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION "A symbol of liberation, innovation and unconventionality. Her life was new, her manners and dress were new, her art was new." Margaret Drabble of Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield - two women writers, female modernists, contemporaries, whose photos appear next to each other on the front cover of Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own, in the company of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, forming three pairs as representatives of three generations. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf were bound together by a tie that was alternately characterised as "a curious friendship"^ and "an uneasy sisterhood,"^ and which worked both on the personal and professional level. Accordingly, in this study I will make an attempt to reconsider this relationship from these basic aspects: from the biographical and the literary points of view. My essay lays special emphasis on Mansfield's character and writing, which perhaps needs some justification. Virginia Woolf has long been considered by most critics as the female modernist; this critical bias tends to forget that her ' Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again. An Autobiography of the Years 1911-1918 (London: The Hogarth Press, 1964), 205. ^ Ann L. McLaughlin, "An Uneasy Sisterhood: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield," Jane Marcus (ed.), Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant (Lincohi and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 152-161. 13