KATHERINE MANSFIELD
WRITER - ESCRITORA
“First I’m a writer and then a woman”
“Life never becomes a habit for me. It’s always a wonder”
Tales:
The garden party, Miss Brill, The Doll’s House, Bliss, A cup of tea, At the Bay, The daughter of the Late.
Short Stories:
A truthful adventure, How Pearl Buiton was Kidnapped, Bains Yurcs, Violet, The apple-tree, Late at night, An indiscreet journey.
Katherine Mansfield was a pen name for Katleen Beuchamp. Wellington (New Zeland) October 4, 1888, Fontainebleau (France) January 9, 1923.
Daughter of a good family she was rejected by her mother.
She was a modernist writer and wrote stories and short stories. She started writing in her school’s magazine in 1898.
She was very young when she went to study to England. She studied in the Queen’s College in Oxford. She wrote in the College magazine and also studied music. There she met Ida Barker, her friend and later lover.
In 1906 she returned to Wellington and in 1908 she returned definitively to London with an annual allocation of 100 pounds, which allowed her to dedicate herself to writing.
She was a good cellist but her father didn’t let her dedicate to music.
Her life was marked by her sexuality and her diseases. She married twice but never left her relationship with Ida Barker.
She contracted Tuberculosis in 1917, which together with the osteoarthritis, that caused her a venereal disease, marked her life and caused her death in 1923.
She was very young when she died and part of her work was published after her death by her second husband John M. Murray
JOSÉ RAMÓN DIESTE – English For Fun 3A