Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield ( 14 October , 1888 in New Zealand - 9 January , 1923 ) was a New Zealand modernist poet and writer of short fiction. Sourced Would you not like to try all sorts of lives— one is so very small— but that is the...
Even before she died at the age of thirty-four Katherine Mansfield had achieved a reputation as one of the most talented writers of the modern short story in English. From 1910 publications in periodicals like the New Age through the five volumes of...
Short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is noted for her short stories with themes relating to women's lives and social hierarchies as well as her sense of wit and characterizations. Katherine Mansfield has played an important role in the...
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine...
Jeffrey Meyers has published biographies of, among others, Edmund Wilson, Robert Frost, Humphrey Bogart, and Gary Cooper. He has just completed a life of George Orwell. Biography began in the Classical period with Plutarch's Parallel Lives and Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, both...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD A Secret Life By Claire Tomalin Knopf. 292 pp. $22.95 KATHERINE MANSFIELD seems to attract biographers more by the secrets in her life than by her tales. These are now like faded photos, watered down Chekhov with Dickensian flavoring. She was the...
Today is Monday, April 9, the 99th day of 2007. There are 266 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.On this...
UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine—mention of the name Katie Roiphe inspires exasperated eye rolls, forehead slaps, even hisses. Ms. Roiphe is the author,...
In the following essay, Darrohn contends that “The Garden Party” explores issues of class and gender as well as the devastating impact of World War I on Mansfield's generation.
In the following essay, Winston explores the connection between Mansfield's “Carnation” and Virginia Woolf's “Moments of Being: ‘Slater's Pins Have No Points.’”
In "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield, the reader experiences Miss Brill inner-most thoughts through a narrator that expresses exactly what she is thinking in a stream of consciousness. Miss Brill immerses herself in the world of the theater as a way of escapism.
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