The Garden Party and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield [10]
Something Childish and Other Stories, ed. Suzanne Raitt, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996
Non-fiction
The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, ed. John Middleton Murry, 2 Vols., London: Constable, 1928
Journal of Katherine Mansfield, ‘Definitive Edition’, ed. John Middleton Murry, London: Constable, 1954
Katherine Mansfield: letters and Journals, ed. C. K. Stead, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott, Oxford: Clarendon Press (Vol. I: 1903–1917), 1984 (Vol. II: 1918–1919), 1987
BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
ADAM International Review, ed. Miron Grindea, Nos. 370–75, 1972–3
Alpers, Antony, The Life of Katherine Mansfield, London: Jonathan Cape, 1980
Baker, Ida, Katherine Mansfield. The Memories of L.M., London: Michael Joseph, 1991
Brophy, Brigid, ‘Katherine Mansfield’, The London Magazine, December 1962, pp. 41 – 7
Carter, Angela, ‘The Life of Katherine Mansfield’ (Guardian, 1972), Nothing Sacred, London: Virago, 1982, pp. 204–7
Fullbrook, Kale, Katherine Mansfield, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986
Hankin, C. A., Katherine Mansfield and Her Confessional Stories, London: Macmillan, 1985
Kobler, J. F., Katherine Mansfield: A Study of the Short Fiction, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990 (also reprints pieces by Willa Cather and Elizabeth Bowen)
Lee, Hermione, ‘Katherine’, Virginia Woolf London: Chatto & Windus, 1996, pp. 386–401.
Modern Fiction Studies, 24, No. 3 (Autumn 1978) – Special issue: Katherine Mansfield
Tomalin, Claire, Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, London: Viking Press, 1987; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988
A Note on the Text
The text is that of The Garden Party and Other Stories first published by Constable in London in 1922, except that the unnecessary hyphen in the text of the title story (‘The Garden-Party’) has been dropped, to match the book’s title, and various conventions of typography and spelling have been modernized: single quotation marks (and double within single) are used throughout, full points have been removed from contractions, ‘ise’ spellings have been changed to ‘ize’, and the following words have been made single and unhyphenated in accordance with contemporary usage – arm-chair, ash-tray, bird-cage, door-knob, eyeglass, fire-place, good-bye, hair-brush, hair-pin, sight-seeing, suit-case, to-day, to-morrow, to-night, week-end, wood-pile. In addition, on pages 108, 116 and 120, ‘verandah’ has been changed to ‘veranda’ (which is how the word is spelled in the opening story), and on page 121 ‘Meadow’s’ has been corrected to ‘Meadows’s’. Thirteen of the fifteen stories were published first in magazines: ‘At the Bay’, ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’ and ‘The Stranger’ in the London Mercury (in January 1922, May 1921 and January 1921 respectively); in the Athenaeum appeared ‘The Young Girl’ (29 October 1920), ‘Miss Brill’ (26 November 1920), ‘Life of Ma Parker’ (26 Februar 1921) and ‘The Lady’s Maid’ (24 December 1920); in the Sphere, ‘Mr and Mrs Dove’ (13 August 1921), ‘Marriage à la Mode’ (31 December 1921) ‘The Voyage’ (24 December 1921), ‘Her First Ball’ (28 November 1921) and ‘An Ideal Family’ (20 August 1921); and ‘The Garden Party’ appeared in the Weekly Westminster Gazette in February 1922, coinciding with the book’s publication.
Montaigne dit que les hommes vont bèant
aux choses futures; j’ai la manie de béer
aux choses passées.
Contents
At the Bay
The Garden Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Mr and Mrs Dove
The Young Girl
Life of Ma Parker
Marriage à la Mode
The Voyage
Miss Brill
Her First Ball
The Singing Lesson
The Stranger
Bank Holiday
An Ideal Family
The Lady’s Maid
TO
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
At the Bay1
I
Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began.2 The sandy road was gone and