For those who want to download the two Katherine Mansfield stories ‘At the Bay’ and ‘Prelude’ they are
available at:
www.KatherineMansfieldSociety.org/short-stories-by-Katherine-Mansfield
Thanks to Gillian Southgate, who choice this is, for providing this helpful information
Gillian is also our speaker at this Friday's Literary Society meeting.
She has an Honours degree and a Master of Arts in English and American
Literature from the University of Kent. She taught the subject
at undergraduate level at Canterbury Christ Church University until she
retired. A short spell in her youth was spent training as a journalist
on
Warwickshire and Worcestershire Life magazine in Leamington Spa
but she gave it up for the academic life. She’s been published in
academic journals, in magazines, has written literary criticism for
students and bookgroups, and regularly wins prizes
in The Oldie and The Spectator poetry competitions. Between 2004
and 2008, she was a Fellow of Jane Franklin Hall at the University of
Tasmania and gave the Governor’s Lady Hamilton lecture in Hobart in 2005
on the literature on the USA. Here in Winchelsea
she’s spoken three times to the Literary Society on the subjects of Katherine Mansfield, The Bloomsbury Group and Geoffrey Chaucer.
This Friday's talk is entitled: ‘How America found its Writing Voice.’