| 1884 |
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Harold Beauchamp marries Annie Burnell Dyer in Wellington New Zealand. The household includes her sisters (Belle and Kitty) and mother Margaret Mansfield Dyer. |
| 1885 |
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Vera Beauchamp born |
| 1887 |
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Charlotte (Chaddie) Beauchamp born |
| 1888 |
Oct 14th |
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp born at 11 Tinakori Rd., Wellington NZ |
| 1889 |
Aug 6th |
John Middleton Murry born in London. |
| 1890 |
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Gwen Beauchamp born but dies three months later. |
| 1892 |
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Jeanne Beauchamp born. |
| 1893 |
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Beauchamps move to Chesney Wold, Karori. (The setting for At the Bay) |
| 1894 |
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Leslie Heron Beauchamp (Chummie) born. |
| 1898 |
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Harold Beauchamp made a Director of the Bank of NZ. Move to 75 Tinakori Rd. Holiday house at 3 Main Rd., Day’s Bay. |
| 1898/1899 |
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KM at Wellington Girls High School. Writes ‘Enna Blake’ for the school magazine.. |
| 1900/01 |
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Beginning of Katherine’s relationship with the Trowell family. Cello lessons. In love with Arnold Trowell, twin brother of Garnet. |
| 1903 |
jan |
To England with sisters Vera and Chaddie to study at Queen’s College. Meets Ida Baker. |
| 1906 |
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KM begins ‘Juliet’. Returns to New Zealand. |
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Dec. |
Death of Granny Dyer. |
| 1907 |
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Harold becomes Chairman of the Bank of NZ . Buys 47 Fitzherbert Terrace in the centre of Wellington. KM’s relationships with Maata Mahupuku and Edith Bendall. Mr & Mrs Trowell move back to London to make a home for their sons who are studying music in Europe. |
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Oct |
First 3 stories published in The Native Companion. Writes Botanical Gardens and In a Cafe |
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Nov/Dec |
Urewera trip. |
| 1908 |
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Jul |
Returns to London alone. Arrives Plymouth Aug.24th 1908. Stays at Beauchamp Lodge – a hostel for young professional women. |
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Sept. |
Begins love affair with Garnet Trowell. |
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Nov/Dec |
Moves in with Trowells at Carlton Hill |
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Dec/Nov. |
Begins to suspect that she may be pregnant. Meets George Bowden. |
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End Dec/Jan |
Thrown out by the Trowells – according to their daughter Dolly because they discovered that KM was pregnant. |
| 1909 |
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Jan 25th |
Goes to Liverpool to see Garnet. |
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Mar 2nd |
Marries George Bowden and leaves him straight away without consummating the marriage. |
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8th March |
Goes to Glasgow to stay with Garnet. |
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17th March |
Marriage announced in the Times. Her relationship with Garnet is over. |
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Apr 8th |
Katherine visits Belgium. |
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May 27th |
Mrs Beauchamp arrives. Takes KM to Worishofen in Germany |
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June 10th |
Mrs Beauchamp goes back to NZ. |
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June/July |
KM loses the baby. Begins her German Pension stories. |
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Oct/Nov |
Meets Floryan Sobieniowski. They become lovers and plan to live together in Paris. |
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Dec/Jan |
KM returns to England suddenly and demands that George Bowden lives with her as husband and wife. |
| 1910 |
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Feb 24th |
Introduction to A.R. Orage at the New Age. Publication of The Child who was Tired. |
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Mar |
Operation for peritonitis. Removal of fallopian tube. KM leaves Bowden and convalesces with Ida at Rottingdean. |
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May |
KM has ‘rheumatic fever’. Friendship with Beatrice Hastings and Orage. |
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Aug |
Return to London. Living at 131 Cheyne Walk. Affairs with William Orton and Francis Heinemann. |
| 1911 |
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Jan |
KM living at 69 Clovelly Mansions, Greys Inn Rd. (now 19 Churston Mansions). |
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Apr |
Katherine suspects that she may be pregnant again. ?Abortion. |
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Post Impressionist Exhibition put on by Roger Fry. |
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May/Oct |
6 ‘German Pension’ stories in New Age edited by Orage. |
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June |
Beauchamps visit England for the Coronation and stay until March 1912. |
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Autumn |
John Middleton Murry begins publication of Rhythm. Contracts gonorrhea. |
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Dec |
Publication of In A German Pension collection by Stephen Swift. KM meets JMM at one of the parties given to celebrate. JMM agrees to print The Woman at the Store, in Rhythm. pub Spring 1912 + 2 poems. |
| 1912 |
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Feb |
JMM comes to KM’s flat for tea. |
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Apr |
JMM moves in as KM’s lodger. KM becomes assistant editor of Rhythm. Shortly afterwards they become lovers. |
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May |
KM and JMM go to Paris where she meets JD Fergusson, Anne Estelle Rice and Francis Carco. KM quarrels with the editors of the New Age, Beatrice Hastings and A.R. Orage. |
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June |
KM and JMM meet Henri Gaudier and his girlfriend Sophie Brzeska. |
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Aug/Sept |
Forced to leave Clovelly Mansions as landlord disapproves of unmarried couple. Move to cottage at Runcton, nr Chichester. |
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Sept/Oct |
Floryan arrives and moves in. Quarrel with Gaudier Brzeskas. |
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Oct |
Rhythm’s publisher disappears. Katherine pledges her allowance towards the debt. |
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Nov |
Living in a cheap room in Chancery Lane. Floryan finally persuaded to leave. |
| 1913 |
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Jan |
KM rents the Mill House at Cholesbury, Bucks. |
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Meets DH Lawrence and Frieda Weekley. |
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May |
Rhythm becomes The Blue Review for only 3 issues. |
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Jul |
Living at 8 Chaucer Mansions, Barons Court. Unable to fund the debts left by Rhythm. |
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Dec |
KM & JMM go to Paris – 31 Rue de Tournon nr Luxembourg Gdns. Closer relationship with Carco. Murry declared bankrupt. |
| 1914 |
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Feb |
Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea. Then 102 Edith Grove, (off Fulham Rd). Katherine finds the communal facilities sordid. |
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Mar |
Ida Baker goes to live with her father in Rhodesia. |
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Jul |
Arthur St. Chelsea (now Dove St.) Full of bugs. |
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Jul |
Lawrence’s marriage to Frieda. |
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Aug.4th |
Outbreak of World War I |
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Oct |
K & J stay with the Lawrences in Buckinghamshire then move to Rose Tree Cottage nr Gt. Missenden. KM meets Samuel Koteliansky (Kot). |
| 1915 |
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Feb |
KM leaves JMM for Francis Carco, but returns. |
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Mar 18th |
KM goes back to stay in Carco’s empty flat at 13 Quai aux Fleurs nr Notre Dames, where she begins The Aloe. |
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Mar 31st |
Back to Murry at 95 Elgin Cres., Notting Hill. Then returns to Paris. |
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Jul 15th |
Takes the lease of 5 Acacia Rd., St John’s Wood. |
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Summer |
Leslie Beauchamp comes to England. |
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Sep |
Signature Magazine – a collaboration with D.H. Lawrence. |
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Oct |
Leslie Beauchamp is killed in France. |
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Nov |
KM’s first meeting with Dorothy Brett. Publishes ‘Stay-Laces’ in the New Age. |
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Nov/Dec |
KM and JMM move to Bandol in France near Marseille. Hotel Beau Rivage and then the Villa Pauline. KM continues to write ‘The Aloe’. Begins an intimate correspondence with Frederick Goodyear, who is in love with her. |
| 1916 |
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Feb |
The Lawrences take a house in Cornwall at Zennor. |
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Apr |
KM & JMM return to England and move to Zennor, Cornwall to live with the Lawrences. |
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May |
KM & JMM leave and move to Mylor in Sth Cornwall. Goodyear visits. |
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Jul |
KM’s first weekend at Garsington, invited by Ottoline Morrell. |
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Aug |
JMM takes job at the War Office to avoid conscription. |
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Sep |
KM returns to London, to 3 Gower St owned by Maynard Keynes and shared by Dorothy Brett and Carrington. KM hates it. |
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Sep |
Ida returns from Rhodesia to take up war work. |
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Nov |
KM begins a friendship with Bertrand Russell. |
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Xmas |
KM and JMM at Garsington. Lytton Strachey and Bertrand Russell. Play ‘The Laurels’. |
| 1917 |
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Feb |
KM moves into a studio at 141a Old Church St., Chelsea. JMM moves to 47 Redcliffe Rd. Begins a friendship with Virginia Woolf. |
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Apr |
Virginia Woolf asks Katherine for a story for the Hogarth Press. She is given The Aloe. |
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May |
Katherine returns to the New Age with ‘Two Tuppeny Ones Please’, ‘Late at Night’, ‘The Black Cap’, ‘In Confidence’, and ‘The Common Round’. |
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May |
Frederick Goodyear is killed in France. |
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Jun |
‘A Picnic’ and ‘Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day’ published in the New Age. |
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Aug |
Katherine stays at Asheham with Virginia Woolf. |
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Aug/Sept |
JMM’s younger brother Richard Murry working on the farm at Garsington as pacifist. Katherine suspects JMM of conducting an affair with Ottoline Morrell. Her friendship with Ottoline breaks down. |
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Dec |
Katherine ill with congestion of the lung. Is advised that it may be tubercular. She consults several doctors. |
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| 1918 |
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JMM becomes Chief Censor at the War Office. KM very ill. |
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Jan |
Diagnosis of TB. Advised not to spend the winter in England. KM sets out alone for Bandol. |
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Feb |
Ida arrives in Bandol to look after Katherine. |
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Feb 19th |
KM’s first haemorrhage. |
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Mar |
KM decides to return to London |
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Mar/Apr |
Stranded in Paris with LM. |
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Apr 29th |
Divorce from Bowden made absolute. |
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May 3rd |
KM’s marriage to JMM. Ferguson & Brett witnesses. Living at 47 Redcliffe Rd. |
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May 17th |
Anne Estelle Rice Drey arranges for KM to stay at the Headland Hotel at Looe in Cornwall to recuperate. |
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Jul |
Prelude published by Hogarth Press. Bliss published in English Review. |
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Aug 8th |
KM’s mother, Annie Burnell Beauchamp dies in New Zealand after an operation. |
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Aug 26th |
Move to ‘The Elephant’, 2 Portland villas, East Heath Rd., Hampstead. |
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Autumn |
KM sees DH Lawrence for the last time in London. |
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Oct |
Dr Sorapure tells her how serious her TB really is. He also suspects that she has had gonorrhea. She does not tell anyone about this, or seek a second opinion. |
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Dec |
The Heron Press (run by JMM and his brother Richard) publish ‘Je ne Parle pas Francais’, as well as poems by JMM. |
| 1919 |
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Jan/Feb |
JMM becomes editor of the Athenaeum. OBE for war work. |
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KM and Koteliansky collaborate on translations of Chekhov’s letters and diaries as well as Gorky and Dostoevsky. KM becomes a reviewer for the Athenaeum. |
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Summer |
KM has an increasingly close friendship with Virginia Woolf. Harold Beauchamp visits London. It’s the first time Katherine has seen him since 1912. He and Murry do not get on. |
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Sept 14th |
KM leaves England for San Remo after making her will. |
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Oct 14th |
KM staying at 31 Casetta Deerholm, Ospedaletti with LM. |
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Nov |
Harold Beauchamp visits KM. |
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Dec |
Dr Foster tells KM the extent of her disease. |
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Dec 4th |
KM asks Murry to come out to her at Ospadelletti and he refuses. The New Husband poem. Turning point in their relationship. |
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Dec 16th |
Murry arrives in Ospedaletti and there is a reconciliation. |
| 1920 |
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Jan 2nd |
JMM goes back to England. |
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Jan |
Connie Beauchamp and Jinnie Fullerton rescue KM and take her to Menton. |
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Feb |
KM receives a cruel letter from Lawrence. |
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Feb/Mar |
Harold Beauchamp marries Laura Kate Bright back in New Zealand. |
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Apr |
KM meets Sydney and Violet Schiff. Returns to Hampstead for 4 months. Renewal of her friendship with Virginia Woolf. |
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Jun |
KM publishes first stories in the Athenaeum. |
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Aug |
KM suspects JMM is having a love affair with Brett. |
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Sep 13th |
Return to Menton and Villa Isola Bella with Ida. |
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Sep |
Floryan’s blackmail attempt. Letters bought for £40 and burnt. |
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Dec |
Constable publish Bliss collection. |
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Nov/Dec |
JMM’s love affair with Princess Bibesco. |
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Dec |
JMM goes to Menton. |
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Winter |
KM gets JB Pinker as her agent. |
| 1921 |
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Feb |
JMM resigns as editor of Athenaeum and goes back to Menton. |
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May 4th |
KM moves from Menton to Switzerland with Ida. Consults Henry Spahlinger, a Swiss bacteriologist who claims to have developed a serum that could cure TB. |
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Jul |
KM rents Chalet des Sapins near Sierre with Murry. Her cousin Elizabeth von Arnim lives nearby. Ida lodges in the village. |
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Jul/Dec |
Katherine writes many of her most important stories. Her health deteriorates. |
| 1922 |
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Jan |
Orage sends JMM Cosmic Anatomy to review. KM reads it and begins to be interested in Ouspensky. |
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Jan 30th |
KM goes to Paris with Ida to see Dr Manoukhin about radiation treatment. |
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Feb 11th |
JMM joins her briefly before going back to Sierre. |
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Jun |
The treatment is not a success. KM returns to Sierre accompanied by JMM. They separate after a quarrel. Ida returns to look after Katherine. |
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Feb 23rd |
Publication of The Garden Party by Constable. |
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Aug 15th |
KM sets her affairs in order. Makes a will before returning to London with Ida and JMM. Stays at Brett’s house. JMM is staying elsewhere. Meets Ouspensky through Orage and discusses Gurdjieff. |
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Oct 2nd |
To Paris with Ida and then to the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man near Fontainbleau. |
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Oct 20th |
Ida leaves KM at the Institute and takes a job on a nearby farm. |
| 1923 |
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Jan 9th |
KM invites Murry to the Institute because she feels that she would like to see him again. In the evening, Katherine dies. |
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Jan 12th |
Funeral at Avon, nr Fontainebleau. |
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