Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield

• 1888-1923

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Background History

• Katherine was born in Wellington, New Zealand
  into a middle-class family.
• Her father was a very conservative banker.
• Her mother was of genteel origins.
• Mansfield published her first text at the age of
  9.

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Mansfields Travels

• In 1903 she moved to London to study at Queens
  College where she joined the staff of College
  Magazine.
• She moved back to New Zealand in 1906 and began
  studying music.
• Katherine moved back to England when her father
  refused to allow her to become a professional
  cello player.

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Mansfield

• In 1908 she moved back to London never to return
  to New Zealand again.
• Before her marriage to George Brown, she had an
  affair with Garnett Trowell, a musician, and
  became pregnant.
• She later suffered a miscarriage of the baby.

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Works and Writing

• In Germany, she wrote satirical sketches, which
  were published in 1911 under the title In a
  German Pension.
• Until 1914, she published stories in Rhythm The
  Blue Review.
• 1915, she met her brother. After his death in
  WWI, she focused her writing on her family.
  Prelude (1916)

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Difficult Years

• 1918- discovered that she has tuberculosis.
• Creative years were burdened by illness.
• Died in 1923 from a pulmonary hemorrhage.

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Famous Works

• The Garden Party
• Mrs. Brill
• A Dill Pickle
• The Woman at The Store
• Stories are known for the use of stream of
  consciousness.
• Influenced by Chekhov and D.H. Lawrence

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