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|, ATHERINE MANSFIELD died in 1923, but last week I heard a programme that made it difficult to believe in her death, so vivid and so immediate was its impact. It was W. Hart-Smith’s review of Katherine Mansfield’s recently published letters, but it was much more than a book review; it; was a successful attempt to recreate for us the woman tangled in the web of genius and the genius trapped in the web of emotion. At the end of the programme I was
conscious of a deep sense of gratitude, primarily to Katherine Mansfield for having crystallised for us so much universal experience so memorably (especially for "I think I have now learnt all that other room had to teach me"), but also to the author of the programme and his two readers. William Austin had obviously caught the contagion of Mr. Hart-Smith’s understanding and Molly Donald read extracts from the letters in a voice which one could accept without lése-majesté as Katherine Mansfield’s.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 11
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