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- Title
- A strange beautiful excitment : Katherine Mansfield's Wellington, 1888-1903
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- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
- Collection
- Auckland Museum Collections
- Description
"How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer. 
Along the way his encou...
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- Image
- Date created
- 2017
- Creator
- Redmer Yska
- URL
- https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1137638
- Locations
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Related subjects
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Childhood and youth
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