Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Beauchamp, who wrote as Katherine Mansfield, was born in Wellington in 1888; her father, a businessman, later sat on the board of the Bank of New Zealand. A pupil at Queen's College in London from 1903, she left her country for good at nineteen. Married in 1909 to George Bowden, she left him the same evening, then lost a child in Germany. The loss of her brother, killed in the war, brought her back to memories of their childhood. Suffering from tuberculosis, she married John Middleton Murry and died near Fontainebleau on 9 January 1923; she is buried at Avon.

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• Short storiesThe Garden Party and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield · 1922Literature