Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923
New Zealand-born author of short fiction.
Major works
- In a German Pension (1911)
- Bliss: and Other Stories (1920)
- The Garden Party: and Other Stories (1922)
- Aloe (1930)
The library has many collections of her short stories, as well as edited collections of her journals and letters: as she wrote short fiction, these anthologies are the best way to gain access to her writing. Search by publication date if you would like to see collections of short stories as Mansfield originally published them.
Known associates
- Ida Constance Baker
- Beatrice Hastings
- D. H. Lawrence
- John Middleton Murry (her second husband)
- Virginia Woolf
Further reading
- The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Antony Alpers, Oxford University Press, 1980)
- This scholarly biography of Mansfield makes a thorough examination of her life and relationships.
- Modern Fiction Studies 24.3 (Fall 1978) is a special issue on Katherine Mansfield
- This special issue of the English literature journal has articles on Katherine Mansfield’s life and work. Browse the articles and use their bibliographies as starting points for further research. You should also search for some recent criticism, perhaps in an online database, as this issue was published in 1978.
Primary sources
- The Newberry Library in Chicago has a collection of Katherine Mansfield’s papers, chiefly manuscript copies of her works and some of her outgoing correspondence. Unfortunately none of this collection is currently available online.
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