Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture

Explores Katherine Mansfield’s engagement in the periodical culture of the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfield’s contemporaries knew her primarily as a contributor to magazines and periodicals. In 1922, for instance, Wyndham Lewis described her as ‘the famous New Zealand Mag.-story writer’. This book provides the first in-depth study of Mansfield’s engagement in periodical culture, examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age , the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm an