I behave like a fiend: Katherine Mansfield’s Lies
Deborah Friedell, 4 January 2024
Virginia Woolf wasn’t sure what she felt when she heard that Katherine Mansfield was dead. The cook, ‘in her sensational way’, had broken the news to her at breakfast: ‘Mrs Murry’s dead! It says so in the paper!’
At that one feels – what? A shock of relief? – a rival the less? Then confusion at feeling so little – then, gradually,...