Katherine Mansfield

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KM 's life was short and much of her writing experimental or oriented towards earning. Though contemporary reviewers sometimes condescended to her youth, gender, and magazine publication, she is now seen as one of our great modernists, her innovations so familiar as to be unnoticeable.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6.
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As well as one of the most interesting and original short-story writers of the Modernist movement, she was a significant letter-writer and diarist. Her poetry, too, is of interest. Claire Tomalin remarked that her diary in particular has made her a cult figure for young women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
  • BirthName: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
    Boddy, Gillian. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer. Penguin Books Australia, 1988, http://U of A HSS.
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  • Nicknames: Wig; Kissienka
  • Self-constructed: Katherine Mansfield
  • Married: Murry
  • Pseudonyms: K. M.; Boris Petrovsky
Black-and-white portrait photo of Katherine Mansfield. She is pictures in profile.

Milestones

14 October 1888

Kathleen Beauchamp (later KM ) was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Boddy, Gillian. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer. Penguin Books Australia, 1988, http://U of A HSS.
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1897

At eight or nine Kathleen Beauchamp (later KM ) won the school composition prize for an essay entitled A Sea Voyage.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Crone, Nora. A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield. 1st ed., Arthur H. Stockwell, 1985.
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7 July 1922

KM wrote The Canary, the last story she ever finished, as a gift for Brett .
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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9 January 1923

KM died at Fontainebleau of a massive tubercular haemorrhage after running upstairs. She was thirty-four.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
418, 383

Biography

Birth and Family

14 October 1888

Kathleen Beauchamp (later KM ) was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
400
Boddy, Gillian. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer. Penguin Books Australia, 1988, http://U of A HSS.
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