Mansfield, Katherine ___ 1888-1923 ___ British ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but when only 15 went to study at Queen's College, London. After returning to New Zealand in 1906, she took up the cello, but her father, a banker, refused to allow her to turn professional. Instead, she studied typing and bookkeeping at Wellington Technical College. A friend of the family eventually persuaded Mr Beauchamp to grant Kathleen an allowance of £100 a year, so she could return to London. She soon started an affair with Garnett Trowell, a musician, and became pregnant, but then married an older man, George Brown, in 1909, leaving him the day of the wedding. She travelled to Germany, where she suffered a miscarriage. On returning to London in 1910, she devoted herself to writing short stories, the first of which appeared in a collection called 'In a German Pension'. She also contributed to publications such as 'The Blue Review' edited by John Middleton Murry. She travelled to France several times, where she met her brother who died during the war. Thereafter, Mansfield wrote more about New Zealand and her family, although she never returned to her native land. Mansfield and Murry, who she married in 1918, were closely associated with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda for a few years. The last years of her life were profilic, writing many short stories and contributing many reviews for Murry by then the editor of 'Atheneum'. However, she was suffering from tuberculosis, and died of a pulmonary haemorrhage while at a Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau. Murry published a collection of her diary entries in 1927, and this has been reprinted many times.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - Miracle of happinness

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1904-1922 ___ domestic literary love/sex self social health people Germany France

WEB TEXT LINKS
many extracts
a couple of citations
several quotes

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library - possibly

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
 

May 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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