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Hello and welcome today. We're bringing old and new together as we discuss the modernist writer

Catherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, a friend and sometime admirer of her work, judged that she

belonged to her day and will fade.

But Virginia Woolf described her fiction as the only writing I've ever been jealous of.

Who was Catherine Mansfield? What is her legacy?

And how did she change the course of the short story?

To explore her life and work, I'm joined by Claire Harmon,

author of the new biography All Sorts

of Lives, the short story writer and novelist Lucy Caldwell, and the academic Chris Morant,

whose discovery of a long-lost Mansfield story tells its own tale about her messy publishing history.

Welcome all of you to Open Book.

Claire, I love the prominence your book gives to Mansfield's writing.

It's a biography told through her stories. Can you describe the structure and tell us how you

came to write the book this way? Well, it evolved from various things, wanting partly to write

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