LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Katherine Mansfield short stories - Marriage a la mode

Genre

Fiction

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:20:39

Description

Reading of Marriage a la Mode, a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. The story follows William, a man commuting home from London on the weekends. His wife Isabel has made new society friends, and this has had an effect on their marriage, with William feeling that his wife has changed, and he is a stranger in his own home. Ultimately, Isabel betrays William’s confidences to her new friends. Female reader not identified (poss. Jane Lapotaire).

Contributors

Katherine Mansfield; Jane Lapotaire?

Keywords

London; Social systems; Fiction; Short stories; Social class; Class differentiation; Class consciousness

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