Katherine Mansfield: Place and Displacement
Live online course, March-April 2027

Join us for a new course on the short stories of Katherine Mansfield. She grew up in New Zealand, with a period at school in London. As a young adult she moved to live permanently in Europe, especially England, France, and Germany. Mansfield wrote very powerfully about the places in which she lived, and she also has an acute sense of social ‘place’: in the family, in one’s class, in language. She explores how people fit (or not) into their ‘place’ of gender or sexuality, and how they cope with displacement.

These lectures will explore various meanings of place in her writing and the many ways in which people can feel placed, or displaced, in their lives.

Lectures (Order to be confirmed later)

• Claire Davison, Meanwhile … Elsewhere: Displacement in Mansfield’s stories
• Kate Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and the Outsider: Bliss and other stories
• Alison Hennegan, Katherine Mansfield and Displaced Persons
• Gerri Kimber on Katherine Mansfield’s early New Zealand Stories to 1908
• Trudi Tate, Katherine Mansfield and Home
• Ellie Mitchell, topic to be confirmed

Set Reading

Claire Davison, Meanwhile … Elsewhere: Displacement in KM’s stories

The Escape
Lady's Maid
At the Bay
A Married Man's Story
Honeymoon

Trudi Tate, Mansfield and Home

The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Prelude
The Garden Party

Course fees (include VAT 20%)

£320 full price
£290 students and seniors on a low income
£290 CAMcard holders
£290 Members of the Katherine Mansfield Society