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| | Alma De Groen: The Rivers of China |
 | | John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) was a critic and editor of the London literary journals, the Athenaeum and the Adelphi. |
 | | John Middleton Murry represents, among other things, a well-intentioned man who, in the present society, cannot help trying to control and exploit the woman he admires. |
 | | The main trouble was that after Mansfield's death her husband, John Middleton Murry, started publishing censored versions of her letters, diaries, notebooks and whatever other scribblings he could lay his hands on, presenting in the process the image of 'a terribly sensitive mind' - a sort of literary madonna, ethereal, innocent, poetic, romantic, childlike. |
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