The Aloe

The Aloe
First US edition
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1930

The Aloe is a novel written by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield. A longer version of her short story "Prelude", it was edited and published posthumously by her husband John Middleton Murry in 1930.[1][2]

C. K. Stead's 2004 biographical novel Mansfield: A Novel focuses in part on Mansfield's efforts, during the years 1915 to 1918, to write The Aloe.[3]

References

  1. ^ Patrick D. Morrow, Katherine Mansfield's Fiction (Popular Press, 1993), ISBN 978-0879725648, pp. 48-51. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  2. ^ Delia Da Sousa Correa, "The Stories of Katherine Mansfield" in Richard Danson Brown & Suman Gupta, eds., Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century Literature 1900-1960 (Psychology Press, 2005), ISBN 978-0415351683, pp. 78, 85-96, & passim. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  3. ^ Hermione Lee, "Capturing the chameleon", The Guardian, 28 May 2004.


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