A selective list of links to literary criticism for short story writer Katherine Mansfield, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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D'Arcy, Chantal Cornut-Gentille. "Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss': 'The Rare Fiddle' as emblem of the political and sexual alienation of woman." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1999
Dilworth, Thomas. "Monkey business: Darwin, displacement, and literary form in Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss'" Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1998
Henstra, Sarah. "Looking the Part: Performative Narration in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Katherine Mansfield's 'Je Ne Parle Pas Francais,'" Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2000
Mansfield, Katherine. "Her First Ball." The internet is flooded with plagiarist web sites slogging papers on "Her First Ball," which has apparently become a mindless cliche for the educational system. Students, don't restort to using those papers, and teachers, consider assigning a different Mansfield story!
Nathan, Rhoda B., ed. A review of Nathan's Critical Essays on Katherine Mansfield. Reviewed in Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1994 by Tracy Ware
O'Sullivan, Vincent and Margaret Scott, eds. A review of The Collected Letters Of Katherine Mansfield. Volume Four: 1920-1921, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). Reviewed in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1998 by Tracy Ware
Pilditch, Jan, ed. The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield. (Greenwood, 1996) The critical reception of Katherine Mansfield, from the earliest criticism in 1911 to the present. Publisher's web site
Schofield, Dennis. Beyond 'The Brain of Katherine Mansfield': the radical potentials and recuperations of second-person narrative - book by author Bill Manhire. In Style, Spring, 1997
Smith, Angela. A substantial introduction to Katherine Mansfield, from the Literary Encyclopedia, March 30, 2001
Robinson, Roger, ed. A review of In From the Margin (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1994) which addresses the growth of her reputation. Notes the reviewer, "Katherine Mansfield was once regarded as a minor writer whose romantic short life overshadowed her fiction: 'Her story was better known that her stories.'" Reviewed in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1995 by Tracy Ware
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature biographical entry for Katherine Mansfield. "No other New Zealand figure has troubled or challenged so many writers to irreverent, defiant or merely exploitative responses."
"By the time she died aged 32, Katherine Mansfield had altered the course of English modernism, and earnt enemies all over literary London." Substantial newspaper article from the UK Telegraph, 7/4/07
Site from the National Library of New Zealand, which has the world's most significant collection of items related to Katherine Mansfield, including her unpublished letters and journals, portraits and personal belongings
The Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society maintains this web site, which includes biographical information and photos, and the house in which she was born, at 25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand
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