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A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.

A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's ...

A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.

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A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.

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Full title

A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.

Date

2017.

Call Numbers

G 2022/0076

Record Identifier

74VKazKomQQd

MMS ID

991024398419202626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

271 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits ; 21 cm.

Content type

still image

cartographic image

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Part One -- 1.Parakeets of Pa-kuao -- 2.Mr Beauchamp's doll's house -- 3.The little girl in the picture -- 4.Something rotten -- Part Two -- 5.The wind! The wind! -- 6.The inventor -- 7.Labour of sorrow -- Part Three -- 8.Little brown owl -- 9.The washerwoman's children -- 10.Their heads in the butt...

Publication information

Publisher

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.

Date Published

2017.

2017.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's o...

Alternative Titles

Full title

A strange beautiful excitement : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903 / Redmer Yska.

Portion of title

Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Colour illustrations on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2017.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2022/0076

Record Identifier

74VKazKomQQd

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazKomQQd

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9780947522544

DDC

993.00

MMS ID

991024398419202626

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