She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world. Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Tiredness of Rosabell (written 1908 published 1924). This collection includes such masterpieces as "Prelude," "At the Bay" "Bliss," "The Man Without a Temperament" and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.
And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships - with one another and themselves - change forever. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve - and sometimes briefly breaking through.
Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H.
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