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A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.
- Title
- A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.
- Author
- Yska, Redmer
- Publication
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9639.3.M258 Z995 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 271 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits; 21 cm
- Summary
- "How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer"--Amazon.com"--Amazon.com
- Alternative Title
- Katherine Mansfield 's Wellington, 1888-1903
- Subjects
- Biographies
- collective biographies
- 1800-1999
- Wellington (N.Z.) - In literature
- Wellington (N.Z.) - Social life and customs - 20th century
- Wellington (N.Z.) - Social life and customs - 19th century
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 - Childhood and youth
- Authors, New Zealand - Homes and haunts - New Zealand - Wellington
- Literary landmarks - New Zealand - Wellington
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 - Homes and haunts - New Zealand - Wellington
- Women authors, New Zealand - Homes and haunts - New Zealand - Wellington
- Literary landmarks > New Zealand > Wellington
- Wellington (N.Z.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Wellington (N.Z.) > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Wellington (N.Z.) > In literature
- Women authors, New Zealand > Homes and haunts > New Zealand > Wellington
- Authors, New Zealand > Homes and haunts > New Zealand > Wellington
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 > Childhood and youth
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 > Homes and haunts > New Zealand > Wellington
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- Colour illustrations on lining papers.
- Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword by / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Prologue: down by the birdbath -- Part One. Parakeets of Pa-kuao -- Mr Beauchamp's doll's house -- The little girl in the picture -- Something rotten -- Part two. The wind! The wind! -- The inventor -- Labour of sorrow -- Part three. Little brown owl -- The washerwoman's children -- Their heads in the buttercups : Karori trail -- The bride wore black -- Part four. Moon at the top of the stairs -- Fly on the wall -- A place in the sun -- Ablutions: Thorndon trail -- Picked out in primroses -- Epilogue: End of the beginning.
- ISBN
- 0947522549
- 9780947522544
- OCLC
- 978438071
- SCSB-12486347
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library