For what with complexes and suppressions and reactions and vibrations and reflections-there are moments when I feel I am nothing but the small clerk of some hotel without a proprietor who has all his work cut out to enter the names and hand the keys to the wilful guests. Which self? Which of my many-well, really, thats what it looks like coming to-hundreds of selves. “True to oneself!” she scoffed in a journal entry. Bendall, Kathë Beauchamp-Bowden, Juliet, Vere, Ariadne, Sally, Pearl, and Guy and she published stories, poems, reviews, and editorials under the names Lili Heron, Julian Mark, Matilda Berry, Elizabeth Stanley, the Tiger, Boris Petrovsky, K.M., and Katherine Mansfield. Her pseudonyms included Katya, Katerina, Kissienka, Katoushka (the Russian variations of her name) her Maori personae were Kezia, Rewa, Tui, and Maata she also referred to herself as Kass, Katharina, Kathë Schonfeld, Mrs. Kathleen Beauchamp was a shapeshifter with as many selves as Stendhal.
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