Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980
Katherine Mansfield's Secrets
By Claire Tomalin
The Life of Katherine Mansfield
by Antony Alpers
Viking, 466 pp., $16.95
Nearly sixty years after her death, the name Katherine Mansfield still projects a sharp, strong presence. Not that Mansfield was her true name; it was one of several she made up. Her image too can be turned about; it changes, now vulnerable and wounded, now imperious and exacting, now the wild, ambitious colonial girl, now the simple seeker after purity and truth in art and life.
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