Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (October 14th 1888 - January 9th 1923) is a New Zealand écrivaine and Poètesse. Drawing its inspiration very as many its family experiments that of its many voyages, it contributed to the renewal of the news with its accounts based on the observation and often stripped of intrigue.

Biography

Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Beauchamp for the civil statue, is born the October 14th 1888 with Wellington in New Zealand. It is at the 9 years age that Katherine publishes its first text.

In 1903, it leaves to study with the Queen' S College of London, where it becomes acquainted with Ida Constance Baker with whom it will remain friendly until her death. It is at this same time that the first texts published under the name Katherine Mansfield appear, of the name of his/her grandmother who raised it.

In 1906, it turns over to New Zealand, where it meets Edith Bendall, of which it éprend, which causes a scandal with Wellington. Three of its news are published in a New Zealand review. His/her father having refused which launches out in a career of professional violonist, it enters in Wellington Technical College to study there the Dactylographie and the Comptabilité.

Thanks to the assistance of his/her friend Ida Constance Baker (often named L.M., acronym of Leslie Moore, in its Journal ), Katherine turns over in England in July 1908 with the insurance of an annual pension of £100 that his/her father commits himself pouring to him, which enables him to be devoted only to the writing. It finds her friends then the Towell brothers. Although awaiting a child of Garnet Towell, she marries George Brown in 1909 to leave it the very same day (the divorce was pronounced in 1913). She leaves then for the Bavaria, where she makes a miscarriage. Katherine meets Floryan Sobienowsky, which makes him discover the work of Anton Tchekhov, which it will take as a starting point thereafter.

In 1910, it turns over to London, where its news is published in the magazine The New Age . The collection of news inspired of its stay in Germany, In has German Pension ( German Pension ), is published in 1911. This same year, Katherine meets the literary critic John Middleton Murry, which she marries in 1918. She will have meanwhile a connection with the French writer Francis Carco. Until 1914, its news is published in the magazines Rythm and The Blue Review .

Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry become acquainted with D.H Lawrence and his Frieda wife, with whom they bind friendship. Lawrence makes a portrait of Katherine under the features of the character of Gudrun in Femmes In love . Lawrence, Murry and Mansfield create the review Signature .

The First World War mark a turning in the life of Katherine when his/her Leslie brother dies in 1915. Its writings more than ever are consequently turned towards New Zealand, with more or less explicit bonds with its own family and her childhood.

In 1916, Prelude is published. She lives then with Bandol in France. It is at the time of a stay in England the following year that it meets Virginia Woolf, with which it is often compared, in particular for their use of the “ stream off counsciousness ” or stream of consciousness. Virginia Woolf will acknowledge that it was jealous only of one writer, Katherine Mansfield.

She learns that she is reached Tuberculose in 1918 and decides to join the more lenient climate of Bandol. She marries John Middleton Murry then. After a short stay in England, it leaves for Ospedaletti in Italy, then for Menton.

The collection Bliss ( Congratulated ) is published in 1920. Mansfield leaves for Montana in Suisse the following year. The Garden Party is published in 1922. She writes her breaking news, The Canary , in July 1922.

The January 9th 1923, it dies of the continuations of its tuberculosis at the institute Gurdjieff located at the Priory of Avon close to Fontainebleau. It is buried with Avon. Two collections of news are published after its death, The Dove' S Nest and Something Childish , like its letters and newspapers.

Works

In has German Pension ( German Pension ), 1911
Prelude , 1918
Bliss and Other Stories ( Félicité ), 1920
The Garden Party and Other Stories ( Garden Party ), 1922
Poems , 1923
The Dove' S Nest and Other Stories ( the Nest of doves and other news ), 1923
Something Childish and Other Stories ( Something of childish, but of very natural and other news ), 1924
The Newspaper off Katherine Mansfield ( Newspaper of Katherine Mansfield ), 1927 (final edition in 1954)
The Letters off Katherine Mansfield ( letters of Katherine Mansfield ), 1928-1929

; Principal news

Bliss ( Congratulated )
The Garden Party ( Garden Party )
At the Bay ( On the bay )
Miss Brill
The Fraud' S House ( the doll's house )
Prelude ( Prélude'

Authors with whom it is often compared

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