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Katherine Mansfield
Sign in to saveAlso known as Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry, Kathleen Murry, Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Murry
New Zealand author (1888–1923)
Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author who lived from 1888 to 1923 and became known for her short stories and literary contributions during the early 20th century. Her work is significant in the history of English literature as an important voice from the modernist period.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 48
Top works
- Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916-1922
- Bliss and Other Stories
- The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
- The Garden Party and Other Stories
- Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1941
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 140
- Total plays
- 530
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Katherine+Mansfield">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Social Network Analysis
· 1994 · cited 16,450x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,631x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,701x
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,630x
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Quotes
- “Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.”
- “To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
- “To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
- “It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.”
- “If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.”
- “I'm a writer first & a woman after.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Katherine Mansfield, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. She began school in Karori with her sisters, before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katherine Mansfield” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.