Katherine Mansfield

New Zealand author (1888–1923)

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a writer. She was born in New Zealand. She moved to the United Kingdom when she was 19. She died when she was 34.

Katherine Mansfield

Early life

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Mansfield was born into a middle-class family in Wellington. She was a cousin of Elizabeth von Arnim. She went to Queen's College with her sisters.