Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) is a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and writes under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Mansfield leaves for Great Britain when she is 19 where she encounters Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she becomes close friends.

Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly.

Among her best-known stories are "The Garden Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly".

During the First World War Mansfield contracts extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which renders any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and leads to her death at the age of 34.

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