Inside Back Jacket Flap 'This transcription of the non-fiction parts of Mansfield's Notebooks, meticulously edited and annotated by two of the world's foremost Mansfield scholars, is both an indispensable academic tool and a delight to the common reader. Here is the writer at work in her own incomparably clever, sensitive and witty person.' C. K. Stead, University of Auckland 'This meticulously and expertly edited volume of Katherine Mansfield's Diaries brings her personal writings to us in all their brilliance, vividness, wit and sadness. Through them, we can trace the development of the mind and sensibility of one of the most powerful writers of the twentieth century. A major achievement.' Laura Marcus, University of Oxford Volume 4 of the Collected Works resituates Katherine Mansfield as an observant diarist, chronicler of her times and erudite reader of English and European literatures Previously only available as edited excerpts or as largely unedited transcriptions, Katherine Mansfield's diaries and notebooks have been re-transcribed and minutely edited for the first time, and are presented in this volume with precise historical, cultural and biographical contextual information. The entries show Mansfield's evolution as a writer as well as the impact of her era on early drafts of her mature writings. This volume also contains fascinating new material never previously published - poem-cycles, letters, Mansfield's own illustrations, and the last materials she was working on in the final weeks of her life. A detailed index facilitates cross-reading and referencing for scholars and general readers alike. Inside Front Flap Gerri Kimber, Research Fellow in English at the University of Northampton, is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years, Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story. Claire Davison, Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, is the current Chair of the French Virginia Woolf Society. She is the author of Translation as Collaboration - Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S. S. Koteliansky (2014) published by Edinburgh University Press, and the co-editor of Contemporary Woolf / Woolf contemporaine, Katherine Mansfield's French Lives, and Volume Seven of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. Anna Plumridge is a postgraduate student at Victoria University of Wellington. Back Jacket The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield Volume 1: The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan Volume 2: The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916-1922, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan Volume 3: The Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Gerri Kimber and Angela Smith Volume 4: The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield: Including Miscellaneous Works, edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison Cover image: Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, PAColl-6826-1-20-2. John Middleton Murry Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-0-7486-8505-9 Barcode