Kathleen Jones (born 1946) is an English poet and biographer.

Biography

Born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, she moved to London as a teenager in order to become a writer. She spent several years in Africa and the Middle East - where she worked in English broadcasting - before returning home. She read law and then English Literature as a mature student at university before specialising in early women writers - work that culminated in ''A Glorious Fame'', the life of

Margaret Cavendish Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. Her husband, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was Cavalier, R ...

, Duchess of Newcastle. Her published work includes radio journalism, articles for magazines and newspapers, short fiction and seventeen books - a mixture of

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, fiction, general non-fiction and five poetry collections. Her biography of

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...

called ''The Storyteller'', was published in New Zealand in August 2010 by Penguin and in the UK in December 2010 by

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. It includes an account of Mansfield's relationship with

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, his work as editor of Mansfield's unpublished manuscripts, letters and notebooks after her death, and how this adversely affected his own life. In 2013 she published a biography of Norman Nicholson - The Whispering Poet - with The Book Mill Press, and more recently, 'Travelling to the Edge of the World', an account of her journey through British Columbia to Haida Gwaii, looking at environmental issues. Jones has published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers. Her short stories have been anthologised and broadcast on Radio 4 and on radio networks in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. She is on the

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authors list, and was one of the featured authors in the 'Save our Short Story Anthology' compiled by the Arts Council on the internet. She has also written three novels, The Sun's Companion (2013) and The Centauress (2015) and Mussolini's Hat (2018). A prize-winning collection of poetry, ''Unwritten Lives'', was published by Redbeck Press in 1995 and a further collection ''Secret Eden'' was exhibited as part of a collaborative project for Visual Arts Year 97 with landscape photographer Tony Riley. Her collection ''Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21'', published by Templar Poetry, was joint winner of the Straid Collection Award 2011. Since then she has published a new pamphlet 'Mapping Emily', with Templar, a collection 'The Rainmaker's Wife' with Indigo Dreams Publishing, and 'Hunger' with Maytree Press. Jones is a regular performer at Literature Festivals all over Britain and leads creative writing workshops for fiction, poetry and life writing. She is also a tutor for the Open University's creative writing program and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She currently lives in the English Lake District close to where she was brought up

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Works

Biography

* ''A Glorious Fame'', Bloomsbury, 1988. (Biography of

). * ''Learning not to be First''. Windrush, 1990; OUP, 1991; Goldmann (Germany) 1996. (Biography of

Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Brit ...

). * ''A Passionate Sisterhood''. Constable, 1997;

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1998.littlebrown.co.uk
/ref> (Lives of the Wives, Sisters and Daughters of

Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ' ...

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and Southey). * ''

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: The Biography''. Constable, 1999; Little Brown, 2000; Random House Australia 2000. *
Seeking Catherine Cookson’s Da
', A genealogical quest. Constable Robinson, 2004. * ''An Introduction to

Margaret Forster Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel ''Georgy Girl'', made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by T ...

''. Northern Lights, 2003. . *
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
', Penguin NZ, 2010; Edinburgh University Press, 2011. A life of

and her husband

. * ''A Passionate Sisterhood''
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The Book Mill2011 * ''Christina Rossetti: Learning Not To Be First'
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The Book Mill 2011 * ''Margaret Cavendish: A glorious Fame'

The Book Mill 2012 * ''Margaret Forster: A Life in Books'' The Book Mill 2012

* ''Norman Nicholson: The Whispering Poet'' The Book Mill 2013

Other non-fiction

''as Kate Gordon:-'' * ''A Practical Guide to Alternative Weddings'', Constable, 1998; reprint, 2002. * ''A Practical Guide to Alternative Baptism and Baby-naming'', Constable, 1998 * ''A Practical Guide to Alternative Funerals'', Constable, 1998.

Poetry

* ''Invisible Lipstick''. Stone Edge Press, 1986. * ''Rumours of Another Sky''. Stone Edge Press, 1987 * ''Unwritten Lives''. Redbeck Press, 1995. * ''Other Poetry'', 2001. * ''Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21'
Templar Poetry
* ''Mapping Emily'

* ''The Rainmaker's Wife'

* ''Hunger'

Fiction

*''The Centauress'' The Book Mill 2012

*''The Sun's Companion'' The Book Mill 2014

*''Mussolini's Hat'' The Book Mill 2018

Short fiction

*''Northern Stories Vol 5'' 1994 Ed. Beryl Bainbridge and David Pownall *''Arc Short Stories Vol 8'' 1997 (Ed. Maureen Freely and Livi Michael) *''Eating Your Cake - and Having it'' (Anthology) *

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Short Story slot, 1994, 1995, 1998 *''Tabla'' 1996, 1999, (); 2001, (). *''Pitch'' 2001 (ed. by Susan Tranter
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*''Landscape into Literature - A Writers' Anthology'' 2005 *''Three and Other Stories'
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The Book Mill 2011

References

External links

Authors websiteA Writer's Life - Author's BlogTwitterRoyal Literary Fund FellowsBritish Council Authors websiteLittle Brown Published authors websiteConstable RobinsonMacmillan's Authors SiteKatherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
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