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1. Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Beauchampnoun

   New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)

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1. Katherine Mansfield

   Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of 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. After being raised by her parents and her beloved grandmother, 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.Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France aged 34.

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1. katherine mansfield

   Katherine Mansfield was a renowned New Zealand short-story writer and poet who became prominent in Europe during the early 20th century. Born in 1888 and died in 1923, her influential works primarily explore the complexity of human emotions and relationships. Mansfield is widely considered a pioneer of the modern short story, with her most famous works including "The Garden Party," "Miss Brill," and "Bliss." She belonged to the literary modernist movement. Her stylistic techniques and narrative innovations have been hugely impactful on the genre. Mansfield died at the early age of 34 from tuberculosis.

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1. Katherine Mansfield

   Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

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