A Picture of Katherine Mansfield explained

Genre:	Drama
Based On:	The life and short stories of Katherine Mansfield
Director:	Alan Cooke
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Num Episodes:	6
Producer:	Rosemary Hill
Runtime:	50 minutes
Company:	BBC
Network:	BBC Two

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as writer Katherine Mansfield, Jeremy Brett as her second husband John Middleton Murry, and Annette Crosbie as her life-long friend Ida Baker, known as L.M. The series consists of six fifty-minute parts each including episodes of Mansfield's life interwoven with adaptations of her short stories,^{[1] [2]} dramatized by English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robin Chapman (1933–2020).

Cast

• Vanessa Redgrave as Katherine Mansfield
• Jeremy Brett as John Middleton Murry
• Lyndon Hughes as Josie
• Annette Crosbie as L.M.
• Phyllida Law as Mother
• Bruce Purchase as Father
• Geoffrey Burridge as Henry

Short Story Adaptations

The Mansfield short story adaptations in each of the six episodes in the series each have their own cast, and are as follows:

• 1 'Psychology' and 'The Garden Party'
• 2 'Germans at Meat' and 'Something Childish but Very Natural'
• 3 'Je ne parle pas français' and 'Sun and Moon'
• 4 'The Aloe' and 'The Man Without a Temperament'
• 5 'Bliss' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'
• 6 'At the Bay' and 'Prelude'

External links

• • A Picture of Katherine Mansfield at British Film Institute

Notes and References

1. Book: Meyers, Jeffrey. 1978. Katherine Mansfield: A Biography . H. Hamilton.
2. Book: Baskin, Ellen. 1996. Serials on British Television, 1950-1994 . Scolar Press.