The outsider: why Katherine Mansfield still divides opinion 100 years after her death
Briefly

How and why did Katherine Mansfield provoke such violent extremes of admiration and hostility, both during her life and after it?Fifty years after her death, the BBC television series A Picture of Katherine Mansfield gave a fair example of her reputation in 1973.Tall, intense Vanessa Redgrave played Mansfield; short, baffled Annette Crosbie her devoted dogsbody friend Ida Baker (known as LM), with Jeremy Brett as Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry taking off his glasses whenever he had to express emotional inadequacy which was frequently.
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