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  The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : www.nzedge.com : Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington in 1888.
Mansfield’s juvenilia are no more or less mawkish than the youthful work of any writer; what is occasionally noteworthy is the degree to which the future figure of the artist can be heard sounding her characteristic notes.
Mansfield was drawn to Lawrence—he was, after all, another outsider in the English literary world—but her journal also records her impatience with what she saw as Lawrence’s reductive view of human nature: ‘I shall never see sex in trees, sex, in the running brooks, sex in stones and sex in everything.
www.nzedge.com /heroes/mansfield.html   (4925 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, where her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine, in 1898 and 1899.
Mansfield proved to be a prolific writer in the final years of her life, and much of her prose and poetry remained unpublished at her death.
Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katherine_Mansfield   (977 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation - all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters.
Mansfield died of a pulmonary hemorrhage on January 9, 1923, in Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France.
Mansfield was greatly influenced by Anton Chekhov, sharing his warm humanity and attention to small details of human behavior.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kmansfi.htm   (1352 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation - all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships.
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family.
Mansfield died of a pulmonary haemorrhage on January 9, 1923, in Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/mansfield_katherine.html   (863 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield House - Katherine Mansfield - Katherine Mansfield:1888 - 1923
Mansfield found life in Wellington boring, complained that people in New Zealand “…do not know their alphabet” and expressed a wish to return to Europe to be a writer.
Mansfield married Murry in May and, after a brief time in Looe in Cornwall, they moved to their own house in Hampstead, London, referred to as “The Elephant”.
Mansfield’s letters, journals, notebooks, dramatic sketches and some of her poems and short stories were published posthumously.
www.katherinemansfield.com /mansfield   (1517 words)

  
 MANSFIELD, Katherine
MANSFIELD, Katherine (1) (1888–1923), was born in Wellington as Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, into a family with vigorous social ambitions.
Mansfield’s early school years were spent in Karori, a village in the hills a few miles from Wellington, until the Beauchamps returned to Wellington, to an impressive merchant’s mansion and a more select social programme, when she was 11.
The establishment of the Katherine *Mansfield Memorial Awards in 1959 indicated growing recognition, as did the *Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in 1970.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/mansfieldk.html   (4336 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is noted for her short stories with themes relating to women's lives and social hierarchies as well as her sense of wit and characterizations.
Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, to a family of English descent in 1888.
Mansfield spent much of the last two years of her life between Italy and France, eventually staying at a priory in Fontainebleau for a holistic-type cure for her tuberculosis.
www.bookrags.com /biography/katherine-mansfield   (1527 words)

  
 Russia, Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield's most recent biographer, Joanna Woods, stumbled on to her subject in the most unlikely of places.
Mansfield was not a likable young woman, and that's partly what makes her such an enduringly interesting one.
Mansfield died young at 33, in January 1923, but she is recognised as a great innovator of short-story-writing technique.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5511-12.cfm   (1173 words)

  
 Carleton College: George Soule: Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield is brilliant when she renders the vapid conversation of fashionable, artistic figures.
Mansfield may be suggesting that the sisters and their mother show three stages in women's lives.
Mansfield brings us close to Laura in another typical way: even the opening description of the day and the flowers seem to be in a character's mindnot the story-teller's.
apps.carleton.edu /people/gsoule/Mansfield   (4492 words)

  
 story guides - Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield spent much of her final days suspended above a cow manger, part of an Armenian mystic's cure for the tuberculosis that had ravaged her for over five years.
To many, Katherine Mansfield is inspiration beyond her writings - to some an adventurous modern woman, to others a tragic symbol of talent cut short.
Mansfield herself confessed to having 'hundreds of selves', to what extent they populate the pages of her stories, you can decide.
www.eastoftheweb.com /short-stories/guides/KathMans.html   (361 words)

  
 Amardeep Singh: Teaching Journal: Katherine Mansfield
I initially just scheduled one day for Katherine Mansfield, on the strength of Hermione Lee's comments on the friendship between Mansfield and Virginia Woolf in her recent, definitive biography of Woolf.
Woolf and Mansfield are especially close in their shared vision of the ephemerality (or collapse?) of the big concepts that form the bedrock of 19th century literary individualism –- the distinction of the self from others, the ability to know and understand that self, and the ability to respond to crises rationally and intentionally.
Mansfield was always among my favourite authors and her stories are the few I can reread many times over and over again.
www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/02/teaching-journal-katherine-mansfield.html   (1523 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield, who lived from 1888 to 1923, is considered to be one of the most remarkable short story writers of her time.
Katherine Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp to Harold and Annie Dyer Beauchamp on October 14, 1888.
Mansfield continued with her literary work, even though she was pestered with a constant cough.
www.freeessays.cc /db/9/bqg157.shtml   (1478 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield Literary File Collection
The Katherine Mansfield literary file consists of 513 items, the bulk of which are images of Mansfield, her husband John Middleton Murry, and other family members, as well as friends and associates, including Dorothy Brett, Marie Laurencin, D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Chiefly images of Mansfield, family members, her husband John Middleton Murry, and various other people, including Dorothy Brett, Francis Carco, Marie Laurencin, D. and Frieda Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as well as places associated with Mansfield in New Zealand, England, France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Images of Mansfield in various locations, including her home and schools in New Zealand, Queen's College (London, England), vacations in the Mediterranean, and the home of D. Lawrence.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/lfmansfield.html   (429 words)

  
 LitWeb
Mansfield, Katherine  An extensive biography from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, includes many photographs and a discussion of Mansfield's influence on later generations of New Zealand writers.
Katherine Mansfield lived from 1888 to 1923; browse the years related to her times.
Mansfield and Woolf  Study notes from Professor David Miall at the University of Alberta.
www.wwnorton.com /litweb/workshops/fiction/mansfield4.asp   (576 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
Katherine Mansfield's letters to John Middleton Murry from the South of France 1915-1920.
'Katherine Mansfield and Karori.' Stockade 3(2): 1-7; Sept 1975.
'Katherine Mansfield and her British critics : is there a 'heart' in Mans field's fiction.' JNZL : Journal of New Zealand Literature 6: 99-118; 1988.
www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mansfiel.htm   (2472 words)

  
 TomFolio.com: by Katherine MANSFIELD
Mansfield, Katherine (pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, 1888-1923) In a German Pension Publisher: NY, Knopf, MCMXXVI [1926].
After three editions, the publisher defaulted; Mansfield refused reprinting of it, as 'it represented for her a phase of youthful bitterness and crude cynicism which she desired to disown for ever.' With an introduction by her husband, John Middleton Murry.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield; edited by J. Middleton Murry Publisher: New York, A.A. Knopf, 1940.
www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Katherine_MANSFIELD   (1017 words)

  
 Fiction: Katherine Mansfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand.
Mansfield's first book of short stories, In a German Pension, was published in 1911.
Mansfield took Anton Chekov as her model, but after she was stricken with tuberculosis in 1918 she found it difficult to work.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/mansfield.htm   (221 words)

  
 Gurdjieff - A reading guide | 3rd Edition — 2004 | Edited by J. Walter Driscoll
Mansfield’s chronic poor health, several miscarriages and her 1911 infection with then often fatal tuberculosis, made death her early and familiar adversary.
By the summer of 1922 Katherine faced the fact that her disease was probably terminal and she abandoned the expensive and ineffective radiation treatments then fashionable for consumptives.
Still others decry the fact that she had fallen under the spell of Gurdjeff’s malign “Rasputin-like” magnetism, which she was too ill to resist (yet her interest in Gurdjieff’s ideas pre-dated her encounter with the man).
www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com /Current/katherinemansfield.htm   (1381 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Stories: Books: Katherine Mansfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In her stories, Mansfield captures some of the impressions we encounter daily and have time only to remark how surprising, how sudden, and how fleeting they are.
Katherine Mansfield is one of many very talented writers who were eclipsed by others more famous (such as Woolf) or who were forgotten (because of her early death.) I decided to read these excellent stories after a critic compared her to Flannery O'Connor.
Katherine died at the age of 32, a real pity because she was fouding a complete personal and masterly style of her own.
www.amazon.com /Stories-Katherine-Mansfield/dp/0679733744   (1884 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, the daughter of the successful businessman, Harold Beauchamp, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888.
The relationship was unsuccessful and Mansfield moved to Bavaria where she gave birth to a stillborn child.
Mansfield was now introduced to other important figures in the literary world such as D.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jmansfield.htm   (229 words)

  
 Bibliofemme: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield's probing of "women's self-fashioned chains of slavery" echoes Woolf's view that a woman, in order to write, (where writing is a metaphor for personal freedom), "needs a room of [one's] own and one hundred pounds a year".
Mansfield experiments with form and ends her stories in the strangest places, as in 'Millie' and 'The Wind Blows'.
Mansfield's only brother, who she was incredibly close to, was killed in the First World War, leaving her heartbroken.
www.bibliofemme.com /reviews/mansfield.shtml   (2004 words)

  
 British Empire: Biographies: Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington as the daughter of a successful businessman.
Their tempestuous relationship together brought Katherine Mansfield into contact with many of leading lights of English literature of that era.
This attention is most obvious in his depiction of Mansfield and Murry as Gudrun and Gerald in Woman in Love (1917).
www.britishempire.co.uk /biography/mansfield.htm   (405 words)

  
 The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories—In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party—during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism's most daring and original writers.
After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954.
More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings.
www.upress.umn.edu /Books/M/mansfield_katherine.html   (365 words)

  
 Bliss Summary & Essays - Katherine Mansfield
By the time of her death, Katherine Mansfield had established herself as an important and influential contemporary short story writer.
Her appeal can be traced to her focus on psychological conflicts, her oblique narration, and her complex characters that seem to be on the brink of a major epiphany.
The protagonist of the story, Bertha, experiences a sense of rapture as she reflects on her life, which later turns to disappointment and resignation as she discovers that her husband is having a love affair with her friend.
www.enotes.com /bliss   (255 words)

  
 Katherine Mansfield - Claire Tomalin - Penguin UK
On her arrival in London from New Zealand in 1908, Katherine seemed a heroic embodiment of the New Woman.
Katherine was no saint, yet she found herself forced into the role and sufferings of a martyr.
Virginia Woolf was also haunted by the power and pungency of Katherine's character, and judged her her only rival among contemporary women writers.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140117158,00.html   (349 words)

  
 Astrocartography of Katherine Mansfield's Least-aspected Mars
Katherine’s early and reckless pursuit of experience brought atrocious punishments.
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in close proximity to the ris­ing position of her Primary Mars, the planet ruling “adventure” and the “passionate approach to life”: qualities that are highlighted throughout her biography.
Mansfield spent the first nineteen years of her brief life within this Transcendental Midpoint-Field, accumulating experiences that later formed the basis of short stories that greatly influenced the course of modern literature.
www.dominantstar.com /b_man.htm   (392 words)

  
 ENGL 481: Katherine Mansfield & Virginia Woolf (Spring 1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For a few years, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) were, in their different ways, among the most influential women of letters in England.
But their shared passion for writing as a way of life led them to a kind of grudging mutual respect--each saw something of herself in the other.
For a number of good reasons, the focus will be upon short fiction, but we will also consider the evolution of such longer works as Mansfield's The Aloe (first published in a much sparer form as Prelude) and Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (which evolved from a sequence of short stories).
www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/mitchell/engl481/mansfield-woolf   (247 words)

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