Katherine Mansfield
KATHERINE MANSFIELD was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888. She moved to London as a young adult. Her first collection of stories, In a German Pension, was published there in 1911, the same year that she met her future husband, noted critic John Middleton Murry. Mansfield also had many relationships with women. In 1917 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and for the remainder of her life she travelled seeking a cure. Her next book, Prelude, a novella published in 1918 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press, was widely acclaimed as one of the finest works of the period. She published two more collections of stories before her death in 1923, aged 34. After her death Murry published two further collections - which cemented her reputation as one of the finest short story writers of the twentieth century - as well as her poems, journals and letters.
