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Heart Of Flame : Katherine Mansfield's Flowers And Trees
Paperback Edition: 1
Katherine Mansfield adored the natural world - flowers, trees and seasons:
I had so many flowers when I was little, I got to know them so wellthat they are simply the breath of life to me. It's no ordinary love; it's a passion.
This passion shines through her stories, poems and letters. The characters in Prelude keep returning to the rambling garden; Taking the Veil is underpinned by a delight in spring; the pear tree in blossom is a symbol for the title Bliss; the single flower in Carnation shapes the story. Flowers always mattered as she wrote in 1921:
I have 'planted out' some of my petunias into a story so that they may live a little longer, and now I am looking for a favourable corner for a whole blaze of nasturtiums.
Mansfield created hundreds of vivid and enduring images:
a clump of toetoe waving in the wind and looking for all the world like a family of little girls drying their hair.
There was a great cabbage tree growing in the front garden and theshadow it cast on the front door was like a many-armed monster...
Heart of Flame reveals the exuberance and originality of Katherine Mansfield's words, and Jenni Shoesmith's lively and lifelike illustrations make it easy to identify the plants she loved so much.
Pages : 116
Publisher : Steele Roberts Ltd
Publication date : 2020-08-22
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, NZ History, NZ Art & Artists, NZ Biography & True Stories, NZ Gardening, NZ Natural History