"a queer sense of being 'like'": Female Friendship in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf.

Friendship; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923; Interpersonal relations; Diary of Virginia Woolf, The (Book); Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, The (Book); Psychology of women

The article discusses the personal and professional aspects of the friendship of novelists Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield while depicting hetero-reality as a disruptive intrusion to more intimate relations between the two women. It takes note of notions of rivalry, communion and ambivalence expressed in the books "The Diary of Virginia Woolf" and "The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield." Their intellectual union is viewed as an escape from male-dominated literary canon.