Provides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield's engagement with and relation to early twentieth-century periodical culture. Foregrounds the original material contexts in which Mansfield produced the majority of her work, emphasising a dialogic or 'conversational' model for modernism. Interrogates Mansfield's ambivalent self-positioning within English literary circles as a 'colonial-metropolitan modernist' and 'outsider'. Integrates ideas of the recent 'transnational turn' across literary studies into the field of periodical scholarship.