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Welcome to the new Katherine Mansfield Society website!

We hope you will find our new website easy to use, and we will be adding more and more features and content to it over the coming months. In the meantime, if there is anything you used to access via the KMS website which you can no longer find, please select the ‘Archive’ link in the menu to see a copy of the website as it was in April 2021.

We welcome your comments and feedback – please email kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org to let us know.

NEW!!!

Conference Placing Katherine Mansfield

University of Birmingham

1–3 July 2025

Keynote speakers:

Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) ‘Mansfield through southern space’

Lauren Elkin (writer and translator) ‘Katherine Mansfield’s urban ambivalence’

Andrew Harrison (University of Nottingham) ‘From Days Bay to the River Soar: Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence and
“Unspoken Intimacy” in The Rainbow (1915)

LINK TO THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE HERE

for more information, click here.

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