biography
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Mansfield, Katherine
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pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Murry, née Beauchamp
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| female
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| lived:
| (1888–1923)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer, born in Wellington, New Zealand. She studied at Queen's College, London, then took up music for two years in New Zealand before returning to London to pursue a literary career. In 1918, after some traumatic early experiences that marked her work, she married the writer John Middleton Murry. Her first major work was Prelude (1917), a long, delicate evocation of the New Zealand of her childhood. Bliss, and Other Stories (1920), containing the classic stories ‘Je ne parle pas français’ and ‘Prelude’, confirmed her standing as an original and innovative writer, influenced by Chekhov. The only other collection published before her premature death from tuberculosis was The Garden Party, and Other Stories (1922). Posthumous works include Poems (1923), Something Childish, and Other Stories (1924), and her revealing Journal (1927) and Letters (1928). |
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