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The Quest for Katherine Mansfield |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Jeffrey Meyers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 4,141 Words, 25,658 Characters |
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In the nineteenth century, biographies tended to be formal, didactic, official, almost hagiographies, written by relatives or disciples of men like Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, William Gladstone, and Cardinal Newman. Lytton Strachey's witty, sarcastic, and iconoclastic Eminent Victorians (1918) tore down the facade of respectability and cleared the path for modern biography. After Strachey, biographers sensed the modern taste for intimate and revealing details and began to describe discreditable behavior and sexual activity, painful illness and agonizing death. In our time the range of subjects has widened to include not only royalty, politicians, and generals but also film actors, rock stars, and criminals.
A good subject for a literary biography is hard to find. The ideal criteria...
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...larship. The Katherine Mansfield who emerged from my quest was very different from the sentimental and idealized portrait that had been created by Murry and reinforced by her previous biographers. Though illness gave her a frail and delicate appearance, her character was less exquisite than tough; and she was more rebellious and daring, more cruel and capable, than the figure in the legend. vbcrlf
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