Tuesday 20 August 2024, 12pm to 1pm
Online
This month in Connecting to Collections Online, join online for a talk by the curators of the new exhibition ‘A child of the sun: Katherine Mansfield’s last year’. Dr Fiona Oliver, Exhibition Advisor and Cherie Jacobson, Director of Katherine Mansfield House & Garden will talk about the exhibition and the collections that have inspired it.
A Katherine Mansfield exhibition
A new exhibition at the Library, ‘A child of the sun’: Katherine Mansfield’s last year, draws on the Alexander Turnbull Library’s extensive Mansfield collection.
In this online talk, the exhibition curators will provide insight into the collection and how it is used by people around the world.
A child of the sun: Katherine Mansfield’s last year
A century of collecting Katherine Mansfield
The Mansfield collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library began when a bound set of Mansfield’s complete works were donated by her father, Harold Beauchamp, following her death in 1923. Since then the library has sought to develop a comprehensive collection of Mansfield’s life and work, resulting in the foremost Mansfield collection in the world.
Learn more about what is in the Mansfield collection (including some unusual items), how it has been built up, and the ways in which it used by scholars and Mansfield fans alike!
About the speakers
Cherie Jacobson is the Director of Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, the Category I historic place that is now a museum celebrating Mansfield’s life and writing.
Dr Fiona Oliver is an Exhibition Advisor at the National Library. She was formerly the Curator of New Zealand and Pacific Publications at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
More information can be found here.