A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield

Description

Filmed in five countries, this program traces the life of New Zealand's most beloved writer from her birth in Wellington in 1888, to her untimely death in France in 1923. Mansfield's extraordinary ability as a writer was influenced by the many fascinating aspects of her complex and often enigmatic personality. The courage she displayed in flaunting many of the conventions of her day places her firmly in the category of "women ahead of their time." Her friendships with fellow members of the Bloomsbury Group-Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell-are closely examined, as is her marriage to critic John Middleton Murray.

Runtime

53 min

Subjects

Contributor

Genre

Date of Publication

[2013], c1998

Database

Films on Demand

Direct Link

Similar Films

Great Expectations. Part 1
Masterpiece, Rebecca - Part 1
Bleak House. Episode 7
Joseph Conrad. Heart of darkness
Among the Ruins (1919-1939)
The Theme of Evil
Secret Garden. Part 3
Robert Louis Stevenson. A Concise Biography
The Woman in White. Episode 5
Beowulf. Episode 12
Beowulf. Episode 5
William Golding. Lord of the flies
Shakespeare's Works and Workplaces
Blue/Orange
Bleak House. Episode 8