SOURCE: Boddy, Gillian. “From Notebook Draft to Published Story: ‘Late Spring’/‘This Flower.’” In Critical Essays on Katherine Mansfield, edited by Rhoda B. Nathan, pp. 101-12. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1993.

In the following essay, Boddy traces the differences between “Late Spring” and the posthumously published story “This Flower.”

When Virginia Woolf reviewed the first edition of The Journal of Katherine Mansfield in the New York Herald Tribune she wrote:

It is not the quality of her writing or the degree of her fame that interest us in her diary, but the spectacle of a mind. … We feel that we are watching a mind which is alone with itself, a mind which has so little thought of an audience that it will make use of a shorthand of its own … or, as the mind in its loneliness starts to do, divide into two and talk to itself...