The Doll's House and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield
Pearson Education, Limited, 2008 - 59 páginas
Classic/ British English
Katherine Mansfield is one of the most famous short story writers in the English language. These four stor
and New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, sometimes sad and often cruel.

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Katherine Mansfield was born Katherine Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand on October
14, 1888, the third daughter of a prominent banker. She attended the Wellington College for
Girls before entering Queen's College in London in 1903. Her interest in the cello led to lessons
at the Royal Academy of Music, where she became secretly engaged to a young prodigy named
Arnold Trowell, who already had a successful concert career. Upon being summoned back to
New Zealand by her father in 1906, she decided to abandon music in favor of writing. She soon
had three stories published in a Melbourne monthly and gained her father's consent to return to
England. Once there, she became depressed when she found that Trowell no longer loved her,
and she rushed into a hasty marriage to a young musician, only to leave him a few days later.
She had a miscarriage, which marked the beginning of her decline in health. After returning to
England in 1910, Katherine Beauchamp published her work under the name Katherine
Mansfield. A collection of her stories, "In a German Pension," was published in 1911. A year
later, she met John Middleton Murry, who eventually became her second husband when she
was finally able to secure a divorce. By the time of this marriage in 1918, Mansfield was found
to have tuberculosis. Her ill health, combined with the death of her brother in World War I,
turned the focus of her work inward and on her homeland. Her memoirs, collected in a book
entitled "Bliss," secured her reputation as a writer, and she followed it up with the equally
acclaimed "Garden Party and Other Stories." Her lyrical style and stream of consciousness
method placed her along side James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for her strength of
characterization and her subtlety of detail. Katherine Mansfield died on January 9, 1923 at the
Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonic Development of Man at Fontainebleau.

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