Editing Katherine Mansfield (section)

===''Rhythm''===
[[File:Mansfield1.jpg|thumb|Mansfield in 1912]]
In 1910, Mansfield submitted a lightweight story to ''[[Rhythm (literary magazine)|Rhythm]]'', a new avant-garde magazine. The piece was rejected by the magazine's editor [[John Middleton Murry]], who requested something darker. Mansfield responded with a tale of murder and mental illness titled "[[The Woman at the Store]]".<ref name=SelectedStories/> Mansfield was inspired at this time by [[Fauvism]].<ref name=SelectedStories/><ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield and Murry began a relationship in 1911 that culminated in their marriage in 1918, but she left him in 1911 and again in 1913.<ref name=Biog2>{{cite web |url=http://www.katherinemansfield.net/life/briefbio2.htm |title=Katherine's relationship with John Middleton Murry |first=Kathleen |last=Jones |access-date=22 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106133224/http://www.katherinemansfield.net/life/briefbio2.htm |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The characters Gudrun and Gerald in D. H. Lawrence's ''[[Women in Love]]'' are based on Mansfield and Murry.<ref>Kaplan, Sydney Janet (2010) ''Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence''. Edinburgh: [[Edinburgh University Press]].</ref>

[[Charles Granville]] (sometimes known as Stephen Swift), the publisher of ''Rhythm'', absconded to Europe in October 1912 and left Murry responsible for the debts the magazine had accumulated. Mansfield pledged her father's allowance toward the magazine, but it was discontinued, being reorganised as ''[[The Blue Review]]'' in 1913 and folded after three issues.<ref name=NZ/> Mansfield and Murry were persuaded by their friend [[Gilbert Cannan]] to rent a cottage next to his windmill in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1913 in an attempt to alleviate Mansfield's ill health.<ref>{{cite book |last=Farr |first=Diana |title=Gilbert Cannan: A Georgian Prodigy |year=1978 |publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]] |location=London |isbn=0-7011-2245-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/gilbertcannangeo0000pull}}</ref> The couple moved to Paris in January the following year with the hope that a change of setting would make writing easier for both of them. Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there, "[[Something Childish But Very Natural]]", then Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy.<ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield had a brief affair with the French writer [[Francis Carco]] in 1914. Her visit to him in Paris in February 1915<ref name=NZ/> is retold in her story "[[An Indiscreet Journey]]".<ref name=SelectedStories/>