Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp), daughter of Harold and Annie Beauchamp, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in October 1888 and passed away in Fontainebleau in January 1923. She completed her studies in England. On March 9, 1909, she married George Bowden in a civil ceremony and left him the same evening. Her early writings (apart from some initial drafts) were published in the magazine "The New Age." Her first book, "In a German Pension," was published in 1911 by Stephen Swift's publishing house and became an immediate success. In 1912, she began her collaboration with "Rhythm," a magazine by John Middleton Murry. (She met Murry in 1911, started a relationship with him in 1912, and married him in 1918, three months after her divorce from Bowden was finalized). In the following years, she experimented with her writing. In 1916, she wrote "Prelude," which marked the establishment of her distinctive style. In 1917, she fell ill with tuberculosis and began traveling and living in various places in an attempt to regain her health. Her second collection of short stories, "Bliss," appeared only in 1921, and the third, "The Garden Party," in 1922. After her death, in addition to her "Journal" and "Letters," two more collections of short stories were published: "The Dove's Nest" and "Something Childish." In total, she wrote eighty-eight short stories.