Katherine mansfield brief biography of prophets

Katherine Mansfield ()

Katherine Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp at 11 (later renumbered to 25) Tinakori Road, Thorndon on 14 October

The third daughter of Harold and Annie Beauchamp, Mansfield spent her childhood in Wellington where she attended Karori Normal School, Wellington Girls' High School (now known as Wellington Girls' College) and the private Fitzherbert Terrace School.

She&#;then travelled to London in with her two older sisters to attend Queen&#;s College. On her return home at the end of , she felt stifled by colonial Wellington and her respectable, upper-class family and longed to escape.

A writer from an early age, Mansfield had stories published in newspapers and periodicals while still a teenager.

Katherine mansfield brief biography of prophets and kings Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon , Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. Hers was a privileged childhood, though her parents were somewhat emotionally distant and often abroad traveling for long periods of time. Rudyard Kipling. Archived from the original on 7 September

After her time at Queen&#;s College, she was determined to make a career from her writing, especially once her initial dream of becoming a professional cellist was met with disapproval from her parents. In , she convinced her father to let her return to London and left New Zealand in July that year.

Mansfield went on to become an internationally acclaimed writer best known for her Modernist short stories.

She published three collections of short stories during her lifetime: In a German Pension (), Bliss and Other Stories () and The Garden Party and Other Stories (). She also published poetry and reviews in literary journals. Her work was admired by fellow 20th-century writers, including Virginia Woolf, D.H.

Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Bowen. She spent time living in England, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland and mixed with many progressive and well-known writers, artists, intellectuals and philosophers.

Her journals and letters evoke a passionate individual, dedicated to her craft, whose life was tragically cut short by tuberculosis on 9 January ,&#;aged She is buried in the&#;Cimeti&#;re d'Avon in France.&#;Following her death, her husband John Middleton Murry published two further collections of her short stories, The Dove's Nest and Other Stories () and Something Childish and Other Stories (), as well as excerpts from her journals and selected letters.&#;

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry on Mansfield offers an excellent overview of her life, as does this minute documentary A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield made in and available online in full through NZ On Screen.

Katherine mansfield brief biography of prophets Continue shopping. Short stories [ edit ]. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety , sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. After the publication of two more volumes, one of poetry and one of short stories, Mansfield suffered a pulmonary hemorrhage in January , leading to her death.

Many of her stories can also be found online.&#;

Research Resources

If you're researching Katherine Mansfield, you may find the following resources useful.

Katherine Mansfield Researchers' Guide&#;- National Library of New Zealand, This guide has been designed to help with researching Katherine Mansfield and includes an overview of Mansfield items held in the Alexander Turnbull Library and National Library collections.

Katherine Mansfield's Stories Online

Many of Katherine Mansfield's short story collections can be found online through the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

Click on the title below to access the 'Contents' page&#;of each collection. Once you're on the 'Contents' page, click on a page number, the story title, or one of the '+' symbols&#;to go to a particular story, or click 'next section' to start on the first page and continue on through the pages of the online book:

Some popular individual&#;&#;New Zealand&#; stories you might like to start with are listed below, click on the title of the story to access it:

More individual stories can&#;be found on the Katherine Mansfield Society's website&#;here.