In this episode, Karina speaks with Mansfield expert Gerri Kimber about the author's infamous connection with Virginia Woolf. They discuss what they had in common, what they didn't, and whether she was really a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Gerri is the founder of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16).

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This is the first part of a mini-series on Woolf in Japan. In this episode, Karina is joined by Prof Aki Katyama, the Japanese translator of A Room of One's Own. Together they discuss the success of this text in Japan, and the importance of Woolf's feminist essay to contemporary Japanese gender politics. They speak with students at Dokkyo University in Soka, and with Ryoko Takeuchi, a publisher at Heibonsha Publishers in Tokyo.

The episode is funded by The Daiwa Foundation.

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In this episode, Karina interviews the excellent Kabe Wilson, an artist and scholar who has recently been artist in residence at the University of Sussex. They discuss his long relationship with Woolf's work and go in search of a lighthouse with some strange connections between his own paintings to those of Vanessa Bell.

Kabe is known in the Woolf community for his imaginative interventions in Woolf's writing. His many projects on Woolf include: Of One Woman or So, The Dreadlock Hoax, and On Being Still. His work has recently been chosen to illustrate the Norton Critical Edition of To the Lighthouse .

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