Biography

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) was a prominent writer of short fiction born and brought up in New Zealand, who also wrote poetry. She moved to Great Britain in 1908, where she became close friends with a circle of writers which included D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, and published several collections of short stories as well as some poems. After contracting tuberculosis, she died aged 34 years.

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