Mansfield- early life

in NZ

By: Annie,
Noor and

Early Life
Born in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand
From 1895 she attended Karori School with her
sisters. There she won a prize for an essay
entitled 'A sea voyage based on a ferry trip
across Cook Strait to visit her relatives at
Picton and Anakiwa.
Katherines first published piece, 'Enna Blake',
appeared in the High School Reporter, with a
note from the editor: 'This story, written by one
of the girls who have lately entered the school,
shows promise of great merit'.

Birth
place

Books inspired by
life in NZ
In her journals she wrote of feeling alienated in
New Zealand, and of how she had become
disappointed because of the repression of the
Maori people
Mori characters are often portrayed in a
positive light in her later stories, such as How
Pearl Button Was Kidnapped".
In The Garden party (book we are reading) she
uses the NZ tree, Karaka in her story

Returning to NZ
*After finishing her schooling in
England, she returned to NZ in
1906. And then she began to
write short stories. She then
went back to London in 1908 and
was never able to return to NZ
because of her tuberculosis.