The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield

Hutchinson Group, Auckland, 1984. Good used condition with dust jacket.

Hutchinson Group, Auckland, 1983. Good used condition with dust jacket.

The love affair and marriage of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is perhaps one of the most famous literary relationships of the 20th century. It was also one of the most poignant, for Katherine died of tuberculosis in her early thirties in 1923. Her own side of this stormy, intense relationship has been known since the publication of her Letters and Journal, and at the time Murry was criticised both for publishing them, and for the image of a cold, unscrupulous and uncaring lover in which they seemed to cast him. This selection of over half his letters to Katherine, which have never been published before, alters this conception of Murry radically...