Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 Oct 1888 – 9 Jan 1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, she left colonial New Zeala
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 Oct 1888 – 9 Jan 1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, she left colonial New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917 and she died in France. Some of her well recognized stories include; Prelude, How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped and His Little Friend
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