Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Thinking Sideways through One’s Sisters 1
6. CRITICISM
7. Powers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf 11
8. Together and Apart 29
9. Seated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf 42
10. Katherine’s Secrets 55
11. A Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew Gardens 75
12. ‘Roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife’: Hermeneutics of the Modern Female Face in Woolf and Mansfield 87
13. The Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf and Lawrence 102
14. Dangerous Reading in Mansfield’s Stories and Woolf’s ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’ 117
15. CREATIVE WRITING
16. Talk
17. Getting Virginia Woolf’s Goat 131
18. Play
19. The Point of ‘Slater’s Pins’: An Introduction 155
20. Virginia Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being: “Slater’s Pins Have No Points”’ 158
21. Poetry
22. ‘Yarn’ 173
23. ‘How too weird’ 174
24. CRITICAL MISCELLANY
25. ‘Not the kind to die’: Katherine Mansfield and the Unquiet Ghost of ‘little brother’ 179
26. REVIEW ESSAY
27. ‘Which of my many [. . .] hundreds of selves?’ Extending Mansfield’s Posthumous Literary Reputation 199
28. Notes on Contributors 213
29. Index 216