The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her literary aesthetics placed her at a distance from the artistic works of the group. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group explores this conflicted relationship. Bringing together biographical and critical studies, the book examines Mansfield's relationships - personal and literary - with such major Modernist figures as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Walter de la Mare as well as the ways in which her work engaged with and reacted against Bloomsbury. In this way the book reveals the true extent of Mansfield's wider influence on 20th-century modernist writing. Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group understands one of the most vital British twentieth-century fiction writers as a working, responsive artist embedded within the matrices of many different kinds of modernisms. This collection importantly situates her in terms not only of Bloomsbury, but also of Garsington, of the fauvists and Post-Impressionists, and of the experimental and established journals of the London publishing scene. This is a weighty collection of intelligent and fluent essays that helps deepen and flesh out our understanding of Katherine Mansfield among her multiple artistic milieux. What emerges is the portrait of a writer substantively engaged in many ways in the radical breakthroughs of an excitingly transformative literary culture.