Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand, the daughter of a banker. She was educated in Wellington and at Queen's College in London, and she studied the cello. After returning briefly to New Zealand, she moved permanently to London in 1908 to become a writer. Her first collection, In a German Pension (1911), drew on a stay in Bavaria. She met the critic John Middleton Murry, whom she later married, and became friends with writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. The death of her younger brother Leslie in the First World War in 1915 led her to write about her childhood in New Zealand, in stories such as 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay'. Her stories, which often focus on small moments and the inner lives of their characters, helped shape the modern short story. Bliss and Other Stories was published in 1920 and The Garden Party and Other Stories in 1922. In 1917 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died at Fontainebleau, France, in 1923, aged 34.

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