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Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. [1]
Jun 11, 2024 · Katherine Mansfield (born October 14, 1888, Wellington, New Zealand—died January 9, 1923, Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France) was a New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry.
Katherine Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, on October 14, 1888. Innovative, accessible, and psychologically acute, Mansfield’s numerous short stories pioneered the genre’s shape in the 20th century.
Mansfield went on to become an internationally acclaimed writer best known for her Modernist short stories. She published three collections of short stories during her lifetime: In a German Pension (1911), Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922). She also published poetry and reviews in literary journals.
The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the pioneers of the modernist short story in English, taking her cue from Russian writers like Anton Chekhov. Below we’ve given a brief beginner’s guide to five of Mansfield’s very best short stories, with links to where each of them can be read online.
Sep 15, 2018 · Katherine Mansfield (October 14, 1888 – January 9, 1923), best known for her mastery of the short story form, was born in Wellington, New Zealand as Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp. Mansfield is recognized for revolutionizing the modern English short story.
Jun 9, 2023 · Katherine Mansfield was a prodigiously gifted writer who revolutionized the English short story before dying of tuberculosis at a tragically young age. Jun 9, 2023 • By Catherine Dent, MA 20th and 21st Century Literary Studies, BA English Literature. Katherine Mansfield, Anne Estelle Rice, 1918.
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp is born to Annie Dyer and Harold Beauchamp, residing at 11 Tinakori Rd, Wellington, New Zealand, “a little land with no history.” She will be one of six children. 1895. Begins school at Karori village school. 1898. Attends Wellington Girls’ High School. Publishes first work in High School Reporter. 1899.
Claire Harman’s new Katherine Mansfield biography, All Sorts of Lives, begins and ends bloodily, with the haemorrhage that killed its subject one hundred years ago on January 9 1923.
K atherine Mansfield was the writer who didn’t sit still. In the century since her death, stories, memories and anecdotes have been passed down in which she seems akin to a human...
