"Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield, published a year earlier than "Marriage á la Mode," is one of the author's most well-known and anthologized stories. Like "Marriage á la Mode," it concerns a domestic drama played at against a background of ridiculous, artsy Londoners. Critics often compare these two stories.
The French writer Colette's 1910 novel The Vagabond depicts a modern woman trying to achieve social and artistic independence.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner.
Keri Hulme, a contemporary New Zealand writer, explores the dynamics of a cobbled-together family in her novel The Bone People.....
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