A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as writer Katherine Mansfield, Jeremy Brett as her second husband John Middleton Murry, and Annette Crosbie as her life-long friend Ida Baker, known as L.M. The series consists of six fifty-minute parts each including episodes of Mansfield's life interwoven with adaptations of her short stories,^[1][2] dramatized by English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robin Chapman (1933–2020).

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Genre	Drama
Based on	The life and short stories of Katherine Mansfield
Written by	Robin Chapman
Directed by	Alan Cooke
Starring	Vanessa Redgrave Jeremy Brett Annette Crosbie Phyllida Law Bruce Purchase
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Rosemary Hill
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	1 May (1973-05-01) – 5 June 1973 (1973-06-05)

Cast

• Vanessa Redgrave as Katherine Mansfield
• Jeremy Brett as John Middleton Murry
• Lyndon Hughes as Josie
• Annette Crosbie as L.M.
• Phyllida Law as Mother
• Bruce Purchase as Father
• Geoffrey Burridge as Henry

Short Story Adaptations

The Mansfield short story adaptations in each of the six episodes in the series each have their own cast, and are as follows:

• 1 'Psychology' and 'The Garden Party'
• 2 'Germans at Meat' and 'Something Childish but Very Natural'
• 3 'Je ne parle pas français' and 'Sun and Moon'
• 4 'The Aloe' and 'The Man Without a Temperament'
• 5 'Bliss' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'
• 6 'At the Bay' and 'Prelude'