Katherine Mansfield
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one of our great modernists, her innovations so familiar as to be unnoticeable. 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.
'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 - BirthName: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
- Nicknames: Wig; Kissienka
- Self-constructed: Katherine Mansfield
- Married: Murry
- Pseudonyms: K. M.; Boris Petrovsky