[6] Mansfield met fellow student Ida Baker [4] at the college, and they became lifelong friends. [2] They both adopted their mother's maiden names for professional purposes, and Baker became known as LM or Lesley Moore, adopting the name of Lesley in honour of Mansfield's younger brother Leslie. [9][10]

2025年1月5日 · Until 1914 she published stories in Rhythm and The Blue Review, edited by the critic and essayist John Middleton Murry, whom she married in 1918 after her divorce from George Bowden.

2024年5月24日 · Katherine Mansfield's personal struggles, including her battles with illness and her search for identity, often found their way into her writing, adding depth and authenticity to her stories.

2023年6月9日 · Though hers was a relatively short life, she lived it to the full, traveling around Europe and taking many lovers, including Maata Mahupuku. When she died at age 34 of tuberculosis, her husband John Middleton Murry was keen to establish her reputation as a genius and something of a saint.

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp is born to Annie Dyer and Harold Beauchamp, residing at 11 Tinakori Rd, Wellington, New Zealand, “a little land with no history.” She will be one of six children. Begins school at Karori village school. Attends Wellington Girls’ High School. Publishes first work in High School Reporter.

Her journals and letters evoke a passionate individual, dedicated to her craft, whose life was tragically cut short by tuberculosis on 9 January 1923, aged 34. She is buried in the Cimetière d'Avon in France.

2023年1月9日 · A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce revolutionary short fiction.

2023年3月1日 · She was married twice and had numerous affairs with men and women. Some of her fiction was copied almost directly from her own diaries.

Although her personal life was filled with illness and depression, Mansfield proved herself to be one of her time period's most creative writers, as she was even compared to the likes of Virginia Woolf.

2018年1月29日 · Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews, and is regarded as a central figure in British modernism. Three story collections were published while she was alive and two posthumously.