Katherine Mansfield
Who is 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 Mahapuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a ...
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Katherine Mansfield Poems
- Very Early Spring
The fields are snowbound no longer;
There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green.
The snow has been caught up into the sky--
So many white clouds--and the blue of the sky is cold.
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- The Candle
By my bed, on a little round table
The Grandmother placed a candle.
She gave me three kisses telling me they were three
dreams
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- A Little Boy's Dream
To and fro, to and fro
In my little boat I go
Sailing far across the sea
All alone, just little me.
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- The Opal Dream Cave
In an opal dream cave I found a fairy:
Her wings were frailer than flower petals,
Frailer far than snowflakes.
She was not frightened, but poised on my finger,
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- Grown-up Talk
Half-Past-Six and I were talking
In a very grown-up way;
We had got so tired with running
That we did not want to play.
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- Bhumrobhumro: the story of an hour by kate chopin
all of the short stories in her body and other parties by carmen maria machado
a good man is hard to find by flannery o conner
the lottery by shirley jackson - a solid 10/10 banger
i like the vibe of katherine mansfield s short stories.
- Benspared: katherine mansfield, writing over 100 years ago:
to spend all the best years of one's life sitting on a stool from nine to five, scratching in somebody's ledger! it's a queer use to make of one's...one and only life, isn't it?
- 9h2_mm: "you are all about me,
i seem to breathe you,
hear you,
feel you in me and of me"
- katherine mansfield
- Thisismehak: "you are all about me i seem to - breathe you - hear you - feel you in me and of me."
- katherine mansfield
- Azad1_khayal: "you are all about me i seem to - breathe you - hear you - feel you in me and of me."
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