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Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

Author of The Garden Party

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Katherine Mansfield was born Katherine Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand on October 14, 1888, the third daughter of a prominent banker. She attended the Wellington College for Girls before entering Queen's College in London in 1903. Her interest in the cello led to lessons at the Royal Academy show more of Music, where she became secretly engaged to a young prodigy named Arnold Trowell, who already had a successful concert career. Upon being summoned back to New Zealand by her father in 1906, she decided to abandon music in favor of writing. She soon had three stories published in a Melbourne monthly and gained her father's consent to return to England. Once there, she became depressed when she found that Trowell no longer loved her, and she rushed into a hasty marriage to a young musician, only to leave him a few days later. She had a miscarriage, which marked the beginning of her decline in health. After returning to England in 1910, Katherine Beauchamp published her work under the name Katherine Mansfield. A collection of her stories, "In a German Pension," was published in 1911. A year later, she met John Middleton Murry, who eventually became her second husband when she was finally able to secure a divorce. By the time of this marriage in 1918, Mansfield was found to have tuberculosis. Her ill health, combined with the death of her brother in World War I, turned the focus of her work inward and on her homeland. Her memoirs, collected in a book entitled "Bliss," secured her reputation as a writer, and she followed it up with the equally acclaimed "Garden Party and Other Stories." Her lyrical style and stream of consciousness method placed her along side James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for her strength of characterization and her subtlety of detail. Katherine Mansfield died on January 9, 1923 at the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonic Development of Man at Fontainebleau. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)

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Works by Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party (1922) 1,471 copies
Bliss and Other Stories (1921) 709 copies
In a German Pension (1911) 492 copies
Stories (1991) 377 copies
Journal (1927) 249 copies
Miss Brill - 3 stories (2015) 136 copies
At the Bay (1954) 89 copies
The Aloe (1930) 85 copies
The Escape (1995) 83 copies
The Montana Stories (2001) 76 copies
The Doll's House (1935) 68 copies
Prelude (Modern Voices) (1918) 59 copies
Miss Brill - short story (1600) 29 copies
Twelve stories (1777) 24 copies
Poems (1923) 23 copies
Alla baia e altri racconti (2011) 19 copies
Novels and Novelists (1930) 18 copies
The Fly (2013) 17 copies
Racconti (2001) 16 copies
The Urewera notebook (1978) 15 copies
34 Short Stories (1957) 14 copies
Le Voyage indiscret (1950) 13 copies
Seligkeit. (1987) 11 copies
Meistererzählungen (1995) 10 copies
The Garden Party (2015) 9 copies
Stories for Summer (1992) 9 copies
Relatos breves (2000) 8 copies
Felicidad y otros cuentos (2016) 8 copies
Les nouvelles (2006) 8 copies
Je ne parle pas français (1992) 8 copies
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3 (2007) — Contributor — 7 copies
Poemetti 6 copies
A cup of tea (2000) 5 copies
Her First Ball (2014) 5 copies
The Garden Party: Five Short Stories (1983) — Author — 5 copies
En una pensión alemana. (1990) 4 copies
The Lady's Maid (1922) 4 copies
Fiesta en el jardín (1990) 4 copies
Mr. and Mrs. Dove (2014) 4 copies
A Dill Pickle (2013) 4 copies
Contos (2005) 4 copies
The Voyage: Short Story (2014) 4 copies
Quaderno d'appunti (2011) 4 copies
Cinco Contos (2002) 3 copies
Noveller (2019) 3 copies
Psychology 3 copies
Sunce i mjesec (1991) 3 copies
La felicidad 3 copies
The Stranger: Short Story (2014) 3 copies
Dicha & Preludio (1994) 3 copies
Life of Ma Parker (2014) 3 copies
The Singing Lesson (2014) 3 copies
An Ideal Family (2014) 3 copies
Félicité 3 copies
Short Stories One (1991) 3 copies
BEATITUDINE. (1960) 2 copies
La criatura terrestre — Author — 2 copies
Koyda (Turkish Edition) (2019) 2 copies
Cahier de notes (1944) 2 copies
Feuille d'Album 2 copies
Glück: Erzählungen (1986) 2 copies
Six Stories (1957) 2 copies
Bliss, Feuille d'Album (2000) 2 copies
The Young Girl (2014) 2 copies
Über die Liebe (1995) 2 copies
CARTAS 1 copy
Marriage & families (2013) 1 copy
Opowiadania 1 copy
Numa Pensao Alema (2009) 1 copy
1: Felicita 1 copy
1919 1 copy
Yolculuk 1 copy
Felicità 1 copy
Psychologie 1 copy
Not quite poetry (2006) 1 copy
Lettere 1 copy
Främlingen 1 copy
Päiväkirjani (2023) 1 copy
Tagebuch (1975) 1 copy
Reisen in den Sommer (1999) 1 copy
Los Burnell (2023) 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
La evasión 1 copy
Duje vítr 1 copy
Widowed 1 copy
Four poems (Pamphilet) (1981) 1 copy
Weak Heart 1 copy
Susannah 1 copy
Honesty 1 copy
Cuentos 1 copy
In Bavaria (2013) 1 copy
Tales Of A Courtyard (2010) 1 copy
Diario: 1910-1922 (2010) 1 copy
Juwelen 1 copy
Jurnal trist 1 copy
L' aloe (1999) 1 copy
Sex & Lies (2013) 1 copy
Honeymoon 1 copy
Dramatic sketches (1989) 1 copy
Bank Holiday (2014) 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Listy 1 copy
Briefe (1992) 1 copy
A Bad Idea 1 copy
All Serene! 1 copy
Daphne 1 copy

Associated Works

50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contributor — 1,242 copies
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005) — Contributor — 1,211 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contributor — 675 copies
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 550 copies
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 510 copies
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contributor — 461 copies
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1967) — Contributor — 430 copies
The Mrs Dalloway Reader (2003) — Contributor — 426 copies
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contributor — 411 copies
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contributor — 365 copies
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 333 copies
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Contributor — 296 copies
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1993) — Contributor — 295 copies
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contributor — 291 copies
The World's Greatest Short Stories (2006) — Contributor — 264 copies
A World of Great Stories (1947) 259 copies
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 236 copies
Love Letters (1996) — Contributor — 180 copies
The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) — Contributor — 119 copies
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contributor, some editions — 118 copies
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contributor — 117 copies
Great English Short Stories (1957) — Contributor — 108 copies
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007) — Contributor — 107 copies
Outstanding Short Stories [Penguin Readers] (1982) — Contributor — 98 copies
Poems Between Women (1997) — Contributor — 91 copies
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contributor — 84 copies
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 80 copies
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Contributor — 74 copies
Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984) — Contributor — 72 copies
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contributor — 66 copies
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contributor — 64 copies
Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics (2006) — Contributor, some editions — 52 copies
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contributor — 51 copies
Modern Short Stories (1939) — Contributor — 49 copies
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contributor — 46 copies
The Virago Book of Such Devoted Sisters (1993) — Contributor — 44 copies
New Zealand Short Stories: 1st Series (1953) — Contributor — 36 copies
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contributor — 35 copies
Modern English Short Stories (1939) — Contributor — 35 copies
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contributor — 33 copies
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Contributor — 32 copies
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Contributor — 27 copies
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories (2019) — Contributor — 25 copies
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000) — Contributor — 21 copies
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
Uomini che non ho sposato (2016) — Contributor — 15 copies
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 13 copies
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contributor — 13 copies
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contributor — 13 copies
Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women (2023) — Contributor — 13 copies
Love Stories: Classic Tales of Romance (2010) — Contributor — 13 copies
Stories of Initiation. (Lernmaterialien) (1978) — Contributor — 12 copies
31 Stories (1960) — Contributor — 12 copies
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contributor — 11 copies
Growing Up Stories (1995) — Contributor — 10 copies
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Contributor — 9 copies
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 (2006) — Contributor — 9 copies
Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope (2021) — Contributor — 9 copies
Laatunovelleja (1998) 8 copies
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (2001) — Contributor — 8 copies
Meesters der Engelse vertelkunst (1957) — Contributor — 8 copies
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Contributor — 7 copies
New Zealand Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (2000) — Contributor — 7 copies
Twelve Short Masterpieces (1986) — Contributor — 7 copies
A book of shorter stories (1962) — Contributor — 6 copies
Top Teen Stories (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Story Survey (1953) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Best British Short Stories of 1923 (1923) — Contributor — 5 copies
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Contributor — 5 copies
Thirteen Short Stories (1968) — Contributor — 5 copies
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume I (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies
Eighteen Stories (1965) 4 copies
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing (2015) — Contributor — 4 copies
Child's Ploy (1984) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Contributor — 4 copies
Immortal Stories (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Contributor — 3 copies
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 3 copies
Husbands and Lovers (1949) — Contributor — 2 copies
London Unplugged (2021) — original short story, segment "Pictures" — 2 copies
El cuento literario (2008) — Contributor — 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Contributor — 2 copies
Representative Modern Short Stories (1929) — Contributor — 2 copies
Even op verhaal komen — Contributor — 1 copy
Virginia's Sisters: An anthology of women's writing (2023) — Contributor — 1 copy
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 1 copy
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 1 copy
After the Fair and Other Stories (1986) — Contributor — 1 copy
Stories of Adolescence (1979) — Contributor — 1 copy

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