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Great gold streamers of light.
IT IS AUTUMN 1919. Katherine Mansfield is living at the Casetta Denholm, a villa in Ospedaletti on the Italian Riviera. In September, to avoid the English winter, she came from London. She has led an active life but now, at thirty-one, can walk only short distances with the aid of a stick and reality has become "bed, medicine bottles, medicine glass marked with tea and table spoons, guiacol tablets, balimanate of zinc".
However, on October 19 she writes optimistically to her husband, John Middleton Murry, who has stayed in London, that she is recovering. The next day she describes to him the scene from her window: "There is a little boat far out moving along, ...
- Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry.(four poems)(Poem)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Semanki, David July 1, 2006 700+ words
The holiday was lonely without you & the left lung aching much. I spent the day trying to nap. All I could think of was one Christmas in New Zealand when I was seven & the gully behind the family house swallowed Father's sheep. He left in the morning, the rifle cradled in his arms &
- On the Rocks.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Fricker, Karen July 7, 2008 700+ words
...reviewed July 1, 2008. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN. John Middleton Murry Nick Caldecott Katherine Mansfield Charlotte Emmerson Frieda...their friends Mansfield (Charlotte Emmerson) and John Middleton Murry (Nick Caldecott) made an attempt at quasi-communal living...
- Volume of letters defy TS Eliot's cruel husband reputation
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times November 1, 2009 700+ words
...She suffered more in spirit than ever before. I have not been able to leave her for three months." In a letter to John Middleton Murry, the novelist and critic, Eliot said his wife had been so ill that for three days she felt her mind had left her body...
- Diary: Tell-tale bundle of the unexpected
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London March 30, 1994 700+ words
...almost felt the ghost of Heifetz when I played," he said. A DAY LIKE THIS 30 March 1918 Katherine Mansfield writes to John Middleton Murry from Paris: "I suppose the blockade has started for no post has come today. It is raining fast and the bombardment is...
- Anniversaries
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London August 6, 1996 700+ words
...Charles-Marie Claudel, poet, 1868; Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist, who discovered penicillin, 1881; John Middleton Murry, author and editor, 1889; William Joseph Slim, first Viscount Slim, field marshal, 1891. Deaths: Stephen V, King...
- Obituary: Jeremy Brett
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Derek Granger September 15, 1995 700+ words
...lightly worn, upper-class manner made him a natural television choice for such roles as Max de Winter in Rebecca (1978); Middleton Murry in A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield (1973); and, superbly, the upright-seeming but morally debilitated Captain Ashburnham...
- Modernism and the marketplace: the case of Conrad's Chance.(Joseph...
- Magazine article from: College Literature Jones, Susan June 22, 2007 700+ words
...The Egoist, which ran 1914-1919 as a mouthpiece for Imagism, serialised Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; John Middleton Murry's The Adelphi published Dorothy Richardson in London, Margaret Anderson's Chicago The Little Review published work...
- Powers of ordure: James Joyce and the excremental vision(s).
- Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg) Anspaugh, Kelly March 1, 1994 700+ words
...excremental vision," a now-familiar phrase in literary-critical circles, first appeared as a chapter title in John Middleton Murry's 1954 biography of Jonathan Swift. In that chapter Murry echoes a number of previous analysts (Dr. Johnson, Sir Walter...
