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[YouPass Collect] - Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in 1888, into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. She became one of New Zealand’s best-known writers, using the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. The daughter of a banker, and born into a middle-class family, she was also a first cousin of Countess Elizabeth von Arnim, a distinguished novelist in her time. Mansfield had two older sisters and a younger brother. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, went on to become the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand. In 1893, the Mansfield family moved to Karori, a suburb of Wellington, where Mansfield would spend the happiest years of her childhood; she later used her memories of this
Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls’ High School magazine in 1898 and 1899. In 1902, she developed strong feelings for
She moved to London in 1903, where she attended Queen’s college, along with her two sisters. Manfield recommenced playing the cello, an occupation that she believed, during her
Mansfield first began journeying into the other parts of Europe in the period 1903-1906, mainly to Belgium and Germany. After finishing her schooling in England, she returned to
Mansfield rapidly grew discontented with the provincial New Zealand lifestyle, and with her family. Two years later she headed again to London. Her father sent her an annual
In 1911, Mansfield met John Middleton Murry, the Oxford scholar and editor of the literary magazine Rhythm. They were later to marry in 1918. Mansfield became a co-editor
Between 1915 and 1918, Mansfield moved between England and Bandol, France. She and Murry developed close contact with other well-known writers of the time such as DH Lawrence,
Mansfield also spent time in Menton, France, as the tenant of her father’s cousin at "The Villa Isola Bella". There she wrote she pronounced to be "...the only
Mansfield produced a great deal of work in the final years of her life, and much of her prose and poetry remained unpublished at her death in 1923.
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time
as
an
inspiration
for
her
Prelude
story.
a
musician
who
played
the
cello,
Arnold
Trowell,
although
her
feelings
were
not,
for
the
most
part,
returned.
Mansfield herself was an accomplished cellist, having received lessons from Trowell’s father.
Mansfield wrote in her journals of feeling isolated to some extent in New Zealand, and, in general terms of her interest in the Maori people (New Zealand’s native people), who were often portrayed in a sympathetic light in her later stories, such as How Pearl Button was Kidnapped.
time
at
Queen’s,
she
would
take
up
professionally.
She also began contributing to the college newspaper, with such a dedication to it that she eventually became its editor.
She was particularly interested in the works of the French writers of this period and on the 19th-century British writer, Oscar Wilde, and she was appreciated amongst fellow students at Queen’s for her lively and charismatic approach to life and work.
She met fellow writer Ida Baker, a South African, at the college, and the pair became lifelong friends.
Mansfield did not actively support the suffragette movement in the UK.
Women in New Zealand had gained the right to vote in 1893.
her
New
Zealand
home
in
1906,
only
then
beginning
to
write
short
stories
in
a
serious
way.
She had several works published in Australia in a magazine called Native Comparison, which was her first paid writing work, and by this time she had her mind set on becoming a professional writer.
It was also the first occasion on which she used the pseudonym "K. Mansfield".
subsidy
of
£100
for
the
rest
of
her
life.
In later years, she would express both admiration and disdain for New Zealand in her journals.
of
Rhythm,
which
was
subsequently
called
The
Blue
Review,
in
which
more
of
her
works
were
published.
She and Murry lived in various houses in England and briefly in Paris.
The Blue Review failed to gain enough readers and was no longer published.
Their attempt to set up as writers in Paris was cut short by Murry’s bankruptcy, which resulted from the failure of this and other journals.
Life back in England meant frequently changed addresses and very limited funds.
Bertrand
Russell
and
Aldous
Huxley.
By October 1918 Mansfield had become seriously ill; she had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and was advised to enter a sanatorium.
She could no longer spend winters in London.
In the autumn of 1918 she was so ill that she decided to go to Ospedale in Italy.
It was the publication of Bliss and Other Stories in 1920 that was to solidify Mansfield’s reputation as a writer.
story
that
satisfies
me
to
any
extent".
After
her
death,
her
husband,
Murry,
took
on
the
task
of
editing
and
publishing
her
works.
His efforts resulted in two additional volumes of short stories, The Doves’ Nest and Something Childish, published in 1923 and 1924 respectively, the publication of her Poems as well as a collection of critical writings (Novels and Novelist) and a number of editions of Mansfield’s previously unpublished letters and journals.
The name Katherine Mansfield, that appears on the writer's book, was exactly the same as her origin name.
2 Mansfield won a prize for a story she wrote for the High School Reporter.
3 How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped portrayed Maori people in a favorable way.
4 When Mansfield was at Queen's college, she planned to be a professional writer.
5 Mansfield was unpopular with the other students at Queen's college.
6 In London, Mansfield showed little interest in politics.
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