Katherine Mansfield’s short life (1888–1923) has had a long tangled biographical history, starting with the ambiguous instructions she left for her husband and literary executor, John Middleton Murry.

In December Mansfield had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, at that time incurable, and from which she died five years later, but in May, her very brief marriage to George Bowden having been ...

One of the genuine, if frequently under-recognized, geniuses of 20th-century literature, Katherine Mansfield wrote the majority of her short stories during a frantic creative flourishing between 1920 ...

THE most tragic contrast in the life of Katherine Mansfield was that between her happiness at Bandol in the South of France in the winter and spring of 1915-1916 and her suffering there two years ...

A collection of 21 short stories, six completed, the other 15 left unfinished at the death of their author. The stories are all brief—five, six, eight pages; the longest one, The Doves’Nest ...

The following is an excerpt from Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber and available now from the University of Chicago Press. This biography explores the life and work of one of literary ...

Edited by J.Middleton Murry. New York: Alfred A.Knopf. 1927. 8vo. xvii+256 pp. Illus. $3.50. GENIUS lies, it seems to me, in the few stories which Katherine Mansfield was able to finish before her ...

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A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as the title character. The series included dramatizations of Mansfield's life as well as adaptations ...