Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
Author of The Garden Party
About the Author
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)
Series
Works by Katherine Mansfield
Tutti i racconti vol. 2 - Il nido delle colombe-Qualcosa di infantile ma di molto naturale-Una pensione tedesca (1987) 11 copies
The Complete Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Literature Classics Series): Bliss, The Garden Party, The… (2016) 9 copies
Poemetti 6 copies
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Four: 1920-1921 (Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 4) (1996) 5 copies
La lezione di canto e altri racconti 5 copies
Racconti neozelandesi 5 copies
The Edinburgh edition of the collected works of Katherine Mansfield. Volume 4, The diaries of Katherine Mansfield… (2016) 4 copies
Una tazza di te e altri racconti 4 copies
Havefesten : Utvalgte noveller 3 copies
Passionate pilgrimage : a love affair in letters : Katherine Mansfield's letters to John Middleton Murry from the South… (1976) 3 copies
Das Leben sollte sein wie ein stetiges sichtbares Licht. Briefe, Tagebücher, Kritiken. (1999) 3 copies
Dagboksblad och brev 3 copies
Psychology 3 copies
La lezione di canto [short story] 3 copies
Sämtliche Erzählungen in fünf Bänden: Das Gartenfest. Das Taubennest. Etwas Kindliches, aber sehr Natürliches.… (1988) 3 copies
La felicidad 3 copies
Rivelazioni (in Tutti i racconti) 3 copies
Félicité 3 copies
La criatura terrestre — Author — 2 copies
Fliegen, tanzen, wirbeln, beben: Vignetten eines Frauenlebens - Mit einem Essay von Virginia Woolf (Manesse Bibliothek,… (2018) 2 copies
The Wind Blows [short story] 2 copies
The Garden Party and Other Stories - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library: 1800 Headwords (2008) 2 copies
Cuentos de mujeres por mujeres/ Women Stories by Women (Clasicos De Siempre-Cuentos/ Always Classic- Stories) (Spanish… (2003) 2 copies
The Works of Katherine Mansfield: Something Childish, and other stories, Bliss, and other stories, The Garden Party,… (2012) 2 copies
Il libro degli appunti 2 copies
The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield: Fiction 1898--1915 (Volume 1) (2012) 2 copies
Something Childish 2 copies
Feuille d'Album 2 copies
Jej pierwszy bal 2 copies
CARTAS 1 copy
Tutti i racconti di Katherine Mansfield II Il nido delle colombe Qualcosa di infantile ma di molto naturale Una… (1997) 1 copy
2: Garden-party 1 copy
Opowiadania 1 copy
In una pensione tedesca 1 copy
Parties and Presents Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate American English Edition: Three Short Stories (Cambridge… (2011) 1 copy
Lettere e diari 1 copy
1: Felicita 1 copy
Γκάρντεν πάρτυ 1 copy
Güneş İle Ay 1 copy
1919 1 copy
Fransizca Bilmiyorum 1 copy
Yolculuk 1 copy
Ausgewählte Werke. 2 Bände 1 copy
Oeuvre romanesque 1 copy
Felicità 1 copy
Felicidade e o estranho 1 copy
Psychologie 1 copy
Contos Completos 1 copy
Lettere 1 copy
Främlingen 1 copy
Dein großes Herz 1 copy
“A Party” 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
COCUKSU BIR SEY 1 copy
Nuovi racconti 1 copy
Eine indiskrete Reise und andere Erzählungen: Übersetzt und mit einem Essay von Ursula Grawe (2019) 1 copy
ALBUM YAPRAGI 1 copy
Zahradní slavnost : Povídky 1 copy
La evasión 1 copy
Duje vítr 1 copy
Widowed 1 copy
Weak Heart 1 copy
Mr. And Mrs. Williams 1 copy
Psychology - Pictures 1 copy
Second Violin 1 copy
Ah Bu Rüzgâr 1 copy
Susannah 1 copy
Honesty 1 copy
Cuentos 1 copy
Diario: 1910-1922 1 copy
Juwelen 1 copy
Jurnal trist 1 copy
His Little Friend 1 copy
La piccola istitutrice e altri racconti I classici della letteratura - Grandi autrici, 17 (RCS) 1 copy
Katherine Mansfield stories 1 copy
Laime : [stāstu izlase] 1 copy
Six Years After 1 copy
A Married Man's Story 1 copy
Taking the Veil 1 copy
Félicité. La garden party. Le nid de colombes. Quelque chose d'enfantin. Pension allemande (1992) 1 copy
Kun olin lintu 1 copy
Honeymoon 1 copy
Germans at Meat 1 copy
No title 1 copy
The Woman At The Store 1 copy
Listy 1 copy
Such A Sweet Old Lady 1 copy
La casa delle bambole 1 copy
A Man And His Dog 1 copy
A Bad Idea 1 copy
Suite pour Isabelle 1 copy
All Serene! 1 copy
Father And The Girls 1 copy
Daphne 1 copy
Медовый месяц: рассказы 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contributor — 843 copies
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 550 copies
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 446 copies
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributor — 377 copies
China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image (2011) — Translator, some editions — 77 copies
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contributor — 52 copies
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributor — 42 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributor — 40 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Contributor — 38 copies
Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 (Handheld Classics) (2020) — Contributor — 32 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contributor — 30 copies
The Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the Cinema: The First Fifty Years (2006) — Contributor — 20 copies
Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s (1987) — Contributor — 11 copies
A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington 1888-1903 (2017) — Contributor — 10 copies
In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s (1989) — Contributor — 7 copies
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contributor — 5 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 3 copies
The colour of distance : New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies
* De Provence Lege Artis: Verhalen uit het land van Van Gogh — Contributor — 1 copy
Even op verhaal komen — Contributor — 1 copy
Im Zeichen der Venus. Frauen schreiben erotische Geschichten ( Anthologie). (1985) — Contributor — 1 copy
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 1 copy
A Caravan of Music Stories by the World's Great Authors — Contributor — 1 copy
A Dovetale Press Adaptation of The Garden Party & The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield (Dovetale Press Books) (2019) — Author — 1 copy
The Amateur: and Other Modern Stories (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme) (1979) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Legal name
- Murry, Kathleen Mansfield
- Other names
- Beauchamp, Kathleen Mansfield (birth)
Bowen, Kathleen Mansfield - Birthdate
- 1888-10-14
- Date of death
- 1923-01-09
- Burial location
- Cimetiere d'Avon, Seine et Marne, France
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Birthplace
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Place of death
- Fontainebleau, France
- Cause of death
- pulmonary hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- Wellington, New Zealand
London, England, UK
Menton, France
Fontainebleau, France
Bandol, France
Montana, Switzerland (show all 7)
Cornwall, England, UK - Education
- Queen's College, London, England, UK
- Occupations
- critic
short story writer
musician - Relationships
- Murry, John Middleton (husband)
von Arnim, Elizabeth (first cousin)
Carco, Francis (lover)
Beauchamp, Harold (father)
Beauchamp, Annie (mother)
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75 Books Challenge for 2015 : ANZAC Author Reading Challenge 2015-Christina Stead (AUS) & Katherine Mansfield (NZ) (May) in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (August 2015)
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