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LM (Leslie Moore)
1888–1978
Best known as “LM,” this English writer is remembered for her long, close friendship with Katherine Mansfield and for preserving vivid memories of the novelist’s life. Writing under a pseudonym, she left behind a personal record that has become part of Mansfield’s story.
5 Audiobooks
The Peacock Feather: A Romance
by LM (Leslie Moore)
Antony Gray,—Gardener
by LM (Leslie Moore)
The Jester
by LM (Leslie Moore)
The wiser folly
by LM (Leslie Moore)
Aunt Olive in Bohemia
by LM (Leslie Moore)
About the author
Born Ida Constance Baker in Suffolk in 1888, she was also known by the pseudonym Leslie Moore, often shortened to “LM.” She became a close companion of Katherine Mansfield after the two met as students in London, and her name now appears most often in connection with Mansfield’s life and letters.
Her best-known book is Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM (1971), a memoir drawn from that long friendship. Library and archival records also identify her as a writer and preserve correspondence, diaries, and papers linked to Mansfield, showing how important her recollections became for later biographers and readers.
She died in 1978. While she is not widely known as a novelist in her own right today, her memoir and the surviving papers associated with her have helped keep an intimate, firsthand view of Katherine Mansfield’s world available to future generations.