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{{Short description|New Zealand author (1888–1923)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name        = Katherine Mansfield
| image       = Katherine Mansfield (no signature).jpg
| caption     = Mansfield in 1914
| birth_name  = Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
| birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1888|10|14}}
| birth_place = [[Wellington]], New Zealand
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1923|01|09|1888|10|14}}
| death_place = [[Fontainebleau]], [[Île-de-France]], France
| occupation  = [[Short-story writer]], [[poet]]
| spouses     = {{ubl|{{marriage|George Bowden|1908|1917|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[John Middleton Murry]]|1918}}}}
| period      = 1908–1923
| alma_mater  = [[Queen's College, London]]
| movement    = [[Literary modernism|Modernism]]
| partners    = {{ubl|[[Maata Mahupuku]]|Edith Kathleen Bendall|Ida Constance Baker}}
| relatives   = [[Arthur Beauchamp]] (grandfather)<br />[[Harold Beauchamp]] (father)<br />[[Elizabeth von Arnim]] (cousin)
| website     = {{officialwebsite}}
}}
'''Kathleen Mansfield Murry''' (née '''Beauchamp'''; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the [[Literary modernism|modernist movement]]. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.<ref name="Taonga">{{Cite web|work=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography|publisher=Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage {{!}} Te Manatu Taonga|title=Mansfield, Katherine|first=Gillian|last=Boddy|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3m42/mansfield-katherine|date=1996|access-date=2021-10-17|via=teara.govt.nz|language=en}}</ref>

Born and raised in [[Katherine Mansfield House and Garden|a house]] on Tinakori Road in the [[Wellington]] suburb of [[Thorndon, New Zealand|Thorndon]], Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. 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 Mahupuku]], who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship.<ref name="Taonga"/>

Mansfield wrote [[short stories]] and poetry under a variation of her own name, '''Katherine Mansfield,''' which explored [[anxiety]], [[Human sexuality|sexuality]], [[Christianity]], and [[existentialism]] alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of [[D. H. Lawrence]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Lady Ottoline Morrell]] and others in the orbit of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]. Mansfield was diagnosed with [[pulmonary tuberculosis]] in 1917, and she died in France aged 34.

==Biography==
[[File:Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, New Zealand.jpg|thumb|left|Katherine Mansfield's birthplace, [[Thorndon, New Zealand]]]]

===Early life===
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp was born in 1888 into a socially prominent [[Wellington]] family in [[Thorndon, New Zealand|Thorndon]]. Her grandfather [[Arthur Beauchamp]] briefly represented the {{NZ electorate link|Picton}} electorate in parliament. Her father [[Harold Beauchamp]] became the chairman of the [[Bank of New Zealand]] and was knighted in 1923.<ref name="Bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.katherinemansfield.com/mansfield/|title=Katherine Mansfield:1888–1923 – A Biography |publisher=Katharinemansfield.com |access-date=12 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014022656/http://www.katherinemansfield.com/mansfield/ |archive-date=14 October 2008 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="DNZB Beauchamp">{{DNZB |last=Nicholls |first=Roberta |id=2b14 |title=Beauchamp, Harold |date=1993|access-date=1 April 2012}}</ref> Her mother was Annie Burnell Beauchamp (née Dyer), whose brother married the daughter of [[Richard Seddon]]. Her extended family included the author Countess [[Elizabeth von Arnim]], and her great-granduncle was a Victorian artist [[Charles Robert Leslie]].

Mansfield had two elder sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother.<ref name="SelectedStories">{{cite book |first=Katherine |last=Mansfield |title=Selected Stories |publisher=Oxford World's Classics |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-283986-2}}</ref><ref name="DNZB Beauchamp" /><ref name="Scholefield 1950">{{cite book |last=Scholefield |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Scholefield |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |edition=3rd |orig-year=First ed. published 1913 |year=1950 |publisher=Govt. Printer |location=Wellington |page=95}}</ref> In 1893, for health reasons, the Beauchamp family moved from Thorndon to the country suburb of [[Karori]], where Mansfield spent the happiest years of her childhood. She used some of those memories as an inspiration for the short story "[[Prelude (short story)|Prelude]]".<ref name="Bio" />

The family returned to Wellington in 1898. Mansfield's first printed stories appeared in the ''High School Reporter'' and the [[Wellington Girls College|Wellington Girls' High School]] magazine<ref name=Bio/> in 1898 and 1899.<ref name=Writing>{{cite web |url=http://www.katherinemansfield.com/mansfield/her_write.asp |title=Mansfield: Her Writing |publisher=Katharinemansfield.com |access-date=12 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014065750/http://www.katherinemansfield.com/mansfield/her_write.asp |archive-date=14 October 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Her first formally published story "[https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/2515 His Little Friend]" appeared the following year in a society magazine, ''New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal''.<ref>Yska, Redmer, ''A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington'', Otago University Press, 2017</ref>

In 1902, at age 13-14, Mansfield became enamoured of [[Arnold Trowell]], a cellist, but her feelings were for the most part not reciprocated.<ref name=NZ>{{cite journal |url=https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/776/585 |title=Katherine Mansfield, 1888–1923 |last=Woods|first=Joanna |journal=Kōtare |publisher=[[Victoria University of Wellington]] |year=2007 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=68–98 |doi=10.26686/knznq.v7i1.776 |access-date=13 October 2008|doi-access=free }}</ref> Mansfield was herself an accomplished cellist, having received lessons from Trowell's father.<ref name=Bio/>

===London and Europe===
She moved to London in 1903, where she attended [[Queen's College, London|Queen's College]] with her sisters. Mansfield recommenced playing the cello, an occupation that she believed she would take up professionally,<ref name="NZ" /> but she began contributing to the college newspaper with such dedication that she eventually became its editor.<ref name="SelectedStories" /><ref name="Writing" /> She was particularly interested in the works of the French [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolists]] and [[Oscar Wilde]],<ref name="SelectedStories" /> and she was appreciated among her peers for her vivacious, charismatic approach to life and work.<ref name="Writing" />

Mansfield met fellow student Ida Baker<ref name="SelectedStories" /> at the college, and they became lifelong friends.<ref name="Bio" /> They both adopted their mother's maiden names for professional purposes, and Baker became known as LM or Lesley Moore, adopting the name of Lesley in honour of Mansfield's younger brother Leslie.<ref name="Alpers54">{{cite book |last=Alpers |first=Antony |title=Katherine Mansfield |date=1954 |publisher=Jonathan Cape Ltd. |pages=26–29}}</ref><ref name="LM21">{{cite book |last=LM |title=Katherine Mansfield: the memories of LM |date=1971 |publisher=Michael Joseph; reprinted by [[Virago Press]], 1985 |isbn=0-86068-745-7 |page=21}}</ref>

Mansfield travelled in Continental Europe between 1903 and 1906, staying mainly in Belgium and Germany. After finishing her schooling in England she returned to New Zealand, and only then began in earnest to write short stories. She had several works published in the ''Native Companion'' (Australia), her first paid writing work, and by this time she had her heart set on becoming a professional writer.<ref name=Writing/> This was also the first occasion on which she used the pseudonym K. Mansfield.<ref name=NZ/> She rapidly grew weary of the provincial New Zealand lifestyle and of her family, and two years later, headed back to London.<ref name=SelectedStories/> Her father sent her an annual allowance of 100 pounds for the rest of her life.<ref name=Bio/> In later years, she expressed both admiration and disdain for New Zealand in her journals, but she never was able to return there because of her [[tuberculosis]].<ref name=SelectedStories/>

Mansfield had two romantic relationships with women that are notable for their prominence in her journal entries. She continued to have male lovers and attempted to repress her feelings at certain times. Her first same-sex romantic relationship was with [[Maata Mahupuku]] (sometimes known as Martha Grace), a wealthy young Māori woman whom she had first met at Miss Swainson's school in Wellington and again in London in 1906. In June 1907, Mansfield wrote:<blockquote>"I want Maata—I want her as I have had her—terribly. This is unclean I know but true."</blockquote> Often referring to Maata as Carlotta, Mansfield wrote about her in several short stories. Maata married in 1907, but it is claimed that she sent money to Mansfield in London.<ref>Roberta McIntyre, Roberta, ''The Canoes of Kupe''. Fraser Books. Masteron. 2012.</ref> The second relationship, with Edith Kathleen Bendall, took place from 1906 to 1908. Mansfield professed her adoration for her in her journals.<ref>{{cite web |last=Laurie |first=Alison J. |title=Queering Katherine |url=http://socsci.flinders.edu.au/wmst/awsa2001/pdf/papers/Laurie.pdf |url-status=dead |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=23 October 2008 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090325142350/http://flinders.edu.au/socsci/womensstudies/ |archive-date=25 March 2009}}</ref>

===Return to London===
After having returned to London in 1908, Mansfield quickly fell into a [[bohemianism|bohemian]] way of life. She published one story and one poem during her first 15 months there.<ref name=Writing/> Mansfield sought out the Trowell family for companionship, and while Arnold was involved with another woman, Mansfield embarked on a passionate affair with his brother Garnet.<ref name=NZ/> By early 1909, she had become pregnant by Garnet, but Trowell's parents disapproved of the relationship, and the two broke up. She then hastily entered into a marriage with George Bowden, a teacher of singing 11 years her senior;<ref name=Tele>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/07/bokatherine.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518180105/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2007%2F04%2F07%2Fbokatherine.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 May 2007 |title=So many afterlives from one short life |first=Ali |last=Smith |author-link=Ali Smith|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=7 April 2007 |access-date=13 October 2008 }}</ref> they were married on 2 March, but she left him the same evening before the marriage could be consummated.<ref name=NZ/>

After Mansfield had a brief reunion with Garnet, Mansfield's mother Annie Beauchamp arrived in 1909. She blamed the breakdown of the marriage to Bowden on a lesbian relationship between Mansfield and Baker, and she quickly had her daughter dispatched to the spa town of [[Bad Wörishofen]] in Bavaria, where Mansfield miscarried. It is not known whether her mother knew of this miscarriage when she left shortly after arriving in Germany, but she cut Mansfield out of her will.<ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield's time in Bavaria had a significant effect on her literary outlook. In particular, she was introduced to the works of [[Anton Chekhov]]. Some biographers accuse her of plagiarizing Chekhov with one of her early short stories.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=A.N. |author-link=A. N. Wilson |title=Sincerely, Katherine Mansfield |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3560098/Sincerely-Katherine-Mansfield.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3560098/Sincerely-Katherine-Mansfield.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph |date=September 8, 2008 |access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She returned to London in January 1910. She then published more than a dozen articles in [[Alfred Richard Orage]]'s socialist magazine ''[[The New Age]]'' and became a friend and lover of [[Beatrice Hastings]], who lived with Orage.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article692912.ece|title=As mad and bad as it gets|first=Frank|last=Whitford|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=30 July 2006|archive-date=16 June 2011|access-date=27 September 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110616100656/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article692912.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her experiences in Germany formed the foundation of her first published collection ''[[In a German Pension]]'' (1911), which she later described as "immature".<ref name="NZ" /><ref name=Writing/>

===''Rhythm''===
[[File:Mansfield1.jpg|thumb|Mansfield in 1912]]
In 1910, Mansfield submitted a lightweight story to ''[[Rhythm (literary magazine)|Rhythm]]'', a new avant-garde magazine. The piece was rejected by the magazine's editor [[John Middleton Murry]], who requested something darker. Mansfield responded with a tale of murder and mental illness titled "[[The Woman at the Store]]".<ref name=SelectedStories/> Mansfield was inspired at this time by [[Fauvism]].<ref name=SelectedStories/><ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield and Murry began a relationship in 1911 that culminated in their marriage in 1918, but she left him in 1911 and again in 1913.<ref name=Biog2>{{cite web |url=http://www.katherinemansfield.net/life/briefbio2.htm |title=Katherine's relationship with John Middleton Murry |first=Kathleen |last=Jones |access-date=22 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106133224/http://www.katherinemansfield.net/life/briefbio2.htm |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The characters Gudrun and Gerald in D. H. Lawrence's ''[[Women in Love]]'' are based on Mansfield and Murry.<ref>Kaplan, Sydney Janet (2010) ''Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence''. Edinburgh: [[Edinburgh University Press]].</ref>

[[Charles Granville]] (sometimes known as Stephen Swift), the publisher of ''Rhythm'', absconded to Europe in October 1912 and left Murry responsible for the debts the magazine had accumulated. Mansfield pledged her father's allowance toward the magazine, but it was discontinued, being reorganised as ''[[The Blue Review]]'' in 1913 and folded after three issues.<ref name=NZ/> Mansfield and Murry were persuaded by their friend [[Gilbert Cannan]] to rent a cottage next to his windmill in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1913 in an attempt to alleviate Mansfield's ill health.<ref>{{cite book |last=Farr |first=Diana |title=Gilbert Cannan: A Georgian Prodigy |year=1978 |publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]] |location=London |isbn=0-7011-2245-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/gilbertcannangeo0000pull}}</ref> The couple moved to Paris in January the following year with the hope that a change of setting would make writing easier for both of them. Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there, "[[Something Childish But Very Natural]]", then Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy.<ref name=NZ/>

Mansfield had a brief affair with the French writer [[Francis Carco]] in 1914. Her visit to him in Paris in February 1915<ref name=NZ/> is retold in her story "[[An Indiscreet Journey]]".<ref name=SelectedStories/>

=== Impact of World War I ===
Mansfield's life and work were changed by the death of her younger brother Leslie Beauchamp, known as Chummie to his family. In October 1915, he was killed during a grenade training drill while serving with the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]] in the [[Ypres Salient]], Belgium, aged 21.<ref>[https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/leslie-beauchamp-great-war-story NZ History. Leslie Beauchamp Great War Story]. New Zealand Government History site (text and video). Retrieved 13 August 2020.</ref> She began to take refuge in nostalgic reminiscences of their childhood in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/mansfield.htm |title=Katherine Mansfield |publisher=Britishempire.co.uk |access-date=25 May 2007}}</ref> In a poem describing a dream she had shortly after his death, she wrote:

{{blockquote|By the remembered stream my brother stands<br />Waiting for me with berries in his hands...<br />"These are my body. Sister, take and eat."<ref name=SelectedStories/>}}

At the beginning of 1917, Mansfield and Murry separated,<ref name=SelectedStories/> but he continued to visit her at her apartment.<ref name=NZ/> Ida Baker, whom Mansfield often called, with a mixture of affection and disdain, her "wife", moved in with her shortly afterwards.<ref name=Tele/> Mansfield entered into her most prolific period of writing after 1916, which began with several stories, including "[[Mr Reginald Peacock's Day]]" and "[[A Dill Pickle]]", being published in ''The New Age''. [[Virginia Woolf]] and her husband [[Leonard Woolf|Leonard]], who had recently set up the [[Hogarth Press]], approached her for a story, and Mansfield presented to them "[[Prelude (short story)|Prelude]]", which she had begun writing in 1915 as "The Aloe". The story depicts a New Zealand family, configured like her own,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harman |first=Claire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azZoEAAAQBAJ&q=claire+harman+all+sorts+of+lives |title=All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything |date=2023-01-05 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-5291-9167-7 |language=en}}</ref> moving house.

=== Diagnosis of tuberculosis ===
In December 1917, at the age of 29, Mansfield was diagnosed with [[pulmonary tuberculosis]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Clarke |first=Bryce |title=Katherine Mansfield's illness |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=48 |issue=12 |pages=1029–1032 |date=6 April 1955 |doi=10.1177/003591575504801212 |pmid=13280723 |pmc=1919322}}</ref> For part of spring and summer 1918, she joined her friend [[Anne Estelle Rice]], an American painter, at [[Looe]] in [[Cornwall]] with the hope of recovering. While there, Rice painted a portrait of her dressed in red, a vibrant colour that Mansfield liked and suggested herself. The ''Portrait of Katherine Mansfield'' is now held by the [[Te Papa|Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41995 |title=Portrait of Katherine Mansfield}} Collection of [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]]. Retrieved 21 July 2020.</ref>

Rejecting the idea of staying in a sanatorium on the grounds that it would cut her off from writing,<ref name="Writing" /> she moved abroad to avoid the English winter.<ref name="NZ" /> She stayed at a half-deserted, cold hotel in [[Bandol]], France, where she became depressed but continued to produce stories, including "[[Je ne parle pas français]]". "[[Bliss (short story)|Bliss]]", the story that lent its name to her second collection of stories in 1920, was also published in 1918. Her health continued to deteriorate and she had her first lung [[haemorrhage]] in March.<ref name="NZ" />

By April, Mansfield's divorce from Bowden had been finalised, and she and Murry married, only to part again two weeks later.<ref name=NZ/> They came together again, however, and in March 1919 Murry became editor of ''[[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenaeum]]'', a magazine for which Mansfield wrote more than 100 book reviews (collected posthumously as ''Novels and Novelists''). During the winter of 1918–1919, she and Baker stayed in a villa in [[Sanremo]], Italy. Their relationship came under strain during this period; after she wrote to Murry to express her feelings of depression, he stayed over Christmas.<ref name=NZ/> Although her relationship with Murry became increasingly distant after 1918<ref name=NZ/> and the two often lived apart,<ref name=Biog2/> this intervention of his spurred her, and she wrote "[[The Man Without a Temperament]]", the story of an ill wife and her long-suffering husband. Mansfield followed ''Bliss'' (1920), her first collection of short stories, with the collection ''[[The Garden Party (short story collection)|The Garden Party and Other Stories]]'', published in 1922.

In May 1921, Mansfield, accompanied by her friend Ida Baker, travelled to Switzerland to investigate the tuberculosis treatment of the Swiss bacteriologist Henri Spahlinge. From June 1921, Murry joined her, and they rented the Chalet des Sapins in the Montana region (now [[Crans-Montana]]) until January 1922. Baker rented separate accommodation in Montana village and worked at a clinic there.<ref name=NZ /> The Chalet des Sapins was only a "1/2 an hours scramble away" from the Chalet Soleil at Randogne, the home of Mansfield's first cousin once removed, the Australian-born writer [[Elizabeth von Arnim]], who visited Mansfield and Murry often during this period.<ref>Maddison, Isobel (2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mp0WDAAAQBAJ&dq=the+adventures+of+elizabeth+on+rugen+katherine+mansfield&pg=PA85 "Chapter 3: 'Worms of the same family': Elizabeth von Armin and Katherine Mansfield"] in ''Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden'', pp. 85–88. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. Retrieved 19 July 2020 (Google Books). (Note: this source incorrectly states that Mansfield was in Switzerland until June 1922, but all Mansfield biographies state January 1922, for after that she sought treatment in France.)</ref> Von Arnim was the first cousin of Mansfield's father. They got on well, although Mansfield considered her wealthier cousin—who had in 1919 separated from her second husband [[Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell|Frank Russell]], the elder brother of [[Bertrand Russell]]—to be rather patronising.<ref>Mansfield, Katherine; [[Vincent O'Sullivan (New Zealand writer)|O'Sullivan, Vincent]] (ed.), et al. (1996) [https://books.google.com/books?id=WktGcM_UpH8C&dq=%22Chalet+Soleil%22++Randogne&pg=PA250 The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Four: 1920–1921], pp. 249–250. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 20 July 2020 (Google Books).</ref> It was a highly productive period of Mansfield's writing, for she felt she did not have much time left. "[[At the Bay]]", "[[The Doll's House (short story)|The Doll's House]]", "[[The Garden Party (short story)|The Garden Party]]" and "[[A Cup of Tea]]" were written in Switzerland.<ref name=montana>Mansfield, Katherine (2001) ''The Montana Stories'' London: [[Persephone Books]]. (A collection of all Mansfield's work written from June 1921 until her death, including unfinished work.)</ref>

===Last year and death===
Mansfield spent her last years seeking increasingly unorthodox cures for her tuberculosis. In February 1922, she went to Paris to have a controversial X-ray treatment from the Russian physician Ivan Manoukhin. The treatment was expensive and caused unpleasant side effects without improving her condition.<ref name=NZ />

From 4 June to 16 August 1922, Mansfield and Murry returned to Switzerland, living in a hotel in Randogne. Mansfield finished "[[The Canary (short story)|The Canary]]", the last short story she completed, on 7 July 1922. She wrote her will at the hotel on 14 August 1922. They went to London for six weeks before Mansfield, along with Ida Baker, moved to [[Fontainebleau]], France, on 16 October 1922.<ref name=montana /><ref name=NZ />

At Fontainebleau, Mansfield lived at [[George Gurdjieff|G. I. Gurdjieff]]'s [[Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man]], where she was put under the care of [[Olgivanna Lloyd Wright|Olgivanna Lazovitch Hinzenburg]] (who later married [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]). As a guest rather than a pupil of Gurdjieff, Mansfield was not required to take part in the rigorous routine of the institute,<ref>[[Linda Lappin|Lappin, Linda]]. "Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence, A Parallel Quest", ''Katherine Mansfield Studies: The Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society, Vol 2'', Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp. 72–86.</ref> but she spent much of her time there with her mentor [[Alfred Richard Orage]], and her last letters inform Murry of her attempts to apply some of Gurdjieff's teachings to her own life.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=O'Sullivan |editor1-first=Vincent |editor2-last=Scott |editor2-first=Margaret |title=The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SdkKAQAAMAAJ&q=collected+letters+of+katherine+mansfield |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |year=2008 |page=360 |isbn=978-0-19-818399-0}}</ref>

Mansfield suffered a fatal pulmonary haemorrhage on 9 January 1923, after running up a flight of stairs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kavaler-Adler |first=Susan |title=The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OP_bJDyvBnoC&q=%22katherine+mansfield%22+stairs+murry&pg=PT126 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=New York City / London |year=1996 |page=113 |isbn=0-415-91412-4}}</ref> She died within the hour, and was buried at Cimetière d'Avon, [[Avon, Seine-et-Marne|Avon]], near Fontainebleau.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d edn: 2 (Kindle Location 29824). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Because Murry forgot to pay for her funeral expenses, she initially was buried in a pauper's grave; when matters were rectified, her casket was moved to its current resting place.<ref>[[Michael Holroyd|Holroyd, Sir Michael]] (1980), "Katherine Mansfield's Camping Ground", in ''Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography'' (2002), p. 61.</ref>

Mansfield was a prolific writer in the final years of her life. Much of her work remained unpublished at her death, and Murry took on the task of editing and publishing it in two additional volumes of short stories (''[[The Doves' Nest]]'' in 1923, and ''Something Childish'' in 1924); a volume of poems; ''The Aloe''; ''Novels and Novelists''; and collections of her letters and journals.

==Works==

*''[[In a German Pension]]'' (1911)
*''[[Bliss (short story collection)|Bliss and Other Stories]]'' (1920)
*''[[The Garden Party (short story collection)|The Garden Party and Other Stories]]'' (1922)
*''[[The Doves' Nest]] and Other Stories'' (1923)
*''[[Poems (Katherine Mansfield)|Poems]]'' (1923)
*''[[Something Childish|Something Childish and Other Stories]]'' (1924), first published in the U.S. as ''The Little Girl''
*''[[The Journal of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (1927, 1954)
*''[[The Letters of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (2 vols, 1928–29)
*''[[The Aloe]]'' (1930)
*''[[Novels and Novelists]]'' (1930)
*''[[The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (1937)
*''[[The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (1939)
*''[[The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (1945, 1974)
*''[[Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913–1922]]'' (1951)
*''[[The Urewera Notebook]]'' (1978), {{ISBN|0-19-558034-6}}
*''[[The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (1987), {{ISBN|0-312-17514-0}}
*''[[The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield]]'' (4 vols, 1984–96)
**Vol. 1, 1903–17, {{ISBN|0-19-812613-1}}
**Vol. 2, 1918–19, {{ISBN|0-19-812614-X}}
**Vol. 3, 1919–20, {{ISBN|0-19-812615-8}}
**Vol. 4, 1920–21, {{ISBN|0-19-818532-4}}
*''The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks'' (2 vols, 1997), {{ISBN|0-8166-4236-2}}
*''[[The Montana Stories]]'' (2001, a collection of all the material written by Mansfield from June 1921 until her death),<ref name=montana /> {{ISBN|978-1-903155-15-8}}
* ''The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield'', edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2016], {{ISBN|978-1-4744-1727-3}}

===Short stories===
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*"[[The Tiredness of Rosabel]]" (1908)
*"Frau Brechenmacher attends a Wedding" (1910)
*"[[Germans at Meat]]" (1911 from ''In a German Pension'')
*"A Birthday" (1911 from ''In a German Pension'')
*"[[A Blaze]]" (1911 from ''In a German Pension'')
*"[[A Truthful Adventure]]" (1911)
*"[[The Journey to Bruges]]" (1911)
*"[[How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped]]" (1912)
*"[[New Dresses]]" (1912)
*"[[The Little Girl (Mansfield short story)|The Little Girl]]" (1912)
*"[[The Woman at the Store]]" (1912)
*"[[Bains Turcs]]" (1913)
*"[[Millie (short story)|Millie]]" (1913)
*"[[Ole Underwood]]" (1913)
*"[[Pension Séguin]]" (1913)
*"Violet" (1913)
*"[[Something Childish But Very Natural]]" (1914)
*"The Apple-Tree" (1915)
*"[[The Little Governess]]" (1915)
*"[[Spring Pictures]]" (1915)
*"That Woman" (1916)
*"Last Words to Youth" (1916)
*"The Laurels" (1916)
*"[[A Dill Pickle]]" (1917)
*"[[Feuille d'Album (short story)|Feuille d'Album]]" (1917)
*"[[Je ne parle pas français]]" (1917)
*"Late at Night" (1917)
*"[[Pictures (short story)|Pictures]]" (1917)
*"See-Saw" (1917)
*"The Black Cap" (1917)
*"[[Two Tuppenny Ones, Please]]" (1917)
*"[[Prelude (short story)|Prelude]]" (1918)
*"[[Bliss (short story)|Bliss]]" (1918)
*"[[Carnation (short story)|Carnation]]" (1918)
*"[[A Suburban Fairy Tale]]" (1919)
*"[[The Wrong House (Katherine Mansfield)|The Wrong House]]" (1919)
*"[[An Indiscreet Journey]]" (1920)
*"Bank Holiday" (1920)
*"[[Miss Brill]]" (1920)
*"[[Mr Reginald Peacock's Day]]" (1920)
*"Poison" (1920)
*"[[Psychology (short story)|Psychology]]" (1920)
*"Revelations" (1920)
*"[[Sun and Moon (Mansfield)|Sun and Moon]]" (1920)
*"The Escape" (1920)
*"[[The Lady's Maid]]" (1920)
*"The Singing Lesson" (1920)
*"[[The Wind Blows (short story)|The Wind Blows]]" (1920)
*"[[The Young Girl (Mansfield short story)|The Young Girl]]" (1920)
*"[[This Flower]]" (1920)
*"[[An Ideal Family]]" (1921)
*"[[Marriage à la Mode (short story)|Marriage à la Mode]]" (1921)
*"[[The Voyage (short story)|The Voyage]]" (1921)
*"[[Her First Ball]]" (1921)
*"[[Mr and Mrs Dove]]" (1921)
*"[[Life of Ma Parker]]" (1921)
*"Sixpence" (1921)
*"[[The Daughters of the Late Colonel]]" (1921)
*"[[The Stranger (Mansfield short story)|The Stranger]]" (1921)
*"[[The Man Without a Temperament]]" (1921)
*"Widowed" (1921)
*"[[At the Bay]]" (1922)
*"[[The Fly (Mansfield short story)|The Fly]]" (1922)
*"[[The Garden Party (short story)|The Garden Party]]" (1922)
*"[[A Cup of Tea]]" (1922)
*"[[The Doll's House (short story)|The Doll's House]]" (1922)
*"[[A Married Man's Story]]" (1923)
*"Honeymoon" (1923)
*"Taking the Veil" (1923)
*"[[The Canary (short story)|The Canary]]" (1923)
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==Legacy==

=== Memorials and archives ===
The following high schools in New Zealand have a [[House system|house]] named after Mansfield: [[Whangārei Girls' High School]]; [[Rangitoto College]], [[Westlake Girls' High School]], and [[Macleans College]] in Auckland; [[Tauranga Girls' College]]; [[Wellington Girls' College]]; [[Rangiora High School]] in North Canterbury, New Zealand; [[Avonside Girls' High School]] in Christchurch; and [[Southland Girls' High School]] in Invercargill. She has also been honoured at Karori Normal School in Wellington, which has a stone monument dedicated to her with a plaque commemorating her work and her time at the school, and at [[Samuel Marsden Collegiate School]] (previously Fitzherbert Terrace School) with a painting, and an award in her name.

Her birthplace in [[Thorndon, New Zealand|Thorndon]] has been preserved as the [[Katherine Mansfield House and Garden]], and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park in Fitzherbert Terrace is dedicated to her.

There is the Résidence le Prieuré, Rue Katherine Mansfield in Avon/Fontainebleau, very near to the former monastery, the G. I. Gurdjieff's Institute, that is the place where she died. A street in [[Menton]], France, where she lived and wrote, is named after her.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2007-06-09/Menton-le-havre-secret-de-Katherine-Mansfield.-_NP_-2007-06-09-293407 |title=Menton, le havre secret de Katherine Mansfield. |website=La Croix |first=Mereuze |last=Didier |date=9 June 2007 |language=fr |access-date=2018-08-22 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> An award, the ''[[New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize|Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship]]'' is offered annually to enable a New Zealand writer to work at her former home, the Villa Isola Bella. New Zealand's pre-eminent short story competition is named in her honour.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thearts.co.nz/katherine-mansfield-menton-fellowship |title=Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship |date=2015-09-16 |publisher=The Arts Foundation |access-date=2018-08-22 |archive-date=11 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411164905/http://www.thearts.co.nz/katherine-mansfield-menton-fellowship |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Archives of Mansfield material are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in the [[National Library of New Zealand]] in Wellington, with other important holdings at the [[Newberry Library]] in Chicago, the [[Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center]] at the University of Texas, Austin and the [[British Library]] in London. There are smaller holdings at [[New York Public Library]] and other public and private collections.<ref name=NZ /> Mansfield's literary and personal papers and belongings at the Alexander Turnbull Library were added to the [[UNESCO]] [[Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao]] register in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unescomow.nz/inscription/pickerill-papers-on-plastic-surgery|title=Pickerill Papers on Plastic Surgery|publisher=UNESCO Memory of the World Programme|access-date=2 December 2024}}</ref>

=== Queer icon ===
The [[Sapphism|Sapphic]] sensibilities of Mansfield's writing and the documentation of long-term female companionships have supported modern readings of Mansfield as an important part of queer history in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first=Elizabeth |date=2021-12-01 |title=Katherine Mansfield |url=https://www.charlottemuseum.co.nz/post/katherine-mansfield |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=The Charlotte Museum |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Katherine Mansfield transcript » PrideNZ.com |url=https://www.pridenz.com/queer_history_katherine_mansfield_transcript.html |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.pridenz.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-28 |title=Wellington Pride Festival |url=https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/calendar2025/the-magic-of-her-body-readings-of-katherine-mansfields-queer-writing-mgy66-pgran-shmay |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Wellington Pride Festival 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Magic of Her Body: Readings of Katherine Mansfield's Queer Writing |url=https://www.theatreview.org.nz/production/the-magic-of-her-body-readings-of-katherine-mansfields-queer-writing/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=Theatreview |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

==Depictions in literature and the arts==
===Biographies===
* Ruth Elvish Mantz & J. Middleton Murry, ''The Life of Katherine Mansfield'', Constable & Co., 1933
* Antony Alpers, ''Katherine Mansfield'', Knopf (U.S.), 1953 and Jonathan Cape (UK), 1954
* Leslie Moore (pseudonym of Ida Constance Baker), ''Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM'', Michael Joseph, 1971
* [[Jeffrey Meyers]], ''Katherine Mansfield: A Biography'', New Directions (U.S.) and Hamish Hamilton (UK), 1978
* Antony Alpers, ''The Life of Katherine Mansfield'', [[Oxford University Press]], 1980
* [[Claire Tomalin]], ''Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life'', Viking, 1987
* Jeffrey Meyers, ''Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View'', Cooper Square Press, 2002
* [[Kathleen Jones (writer)|Kathleen Jones]], ''Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller'', Viking Penguin, 2010
* Gerri Kimber, ''Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years'', Edinburgh University Press, 2016
* [[Claire Harman (writer)|Claire Harman]], ''All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything'', Random House, 2023

===Film and television===
* ''[[A Picture of Katherine Mansfield]]'', a 1973 BBC television drama series, starring [[Vanessa Redgrave]]<br>This six-part series includes depictions of Mansfield's life and adaptations of her short stories.
* ''[[Leave All Fair]]'' (1985), directed by John Reid, starring [[Jane Birkin]] as Mansfield
* ''A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer'' (1987), directed by [[Julienne Stretton]]
* ''The Life and Writings of Katherine Mansfield'' (2006), directed by Stacy Waymack Thornton
* ''Bliss'' (2011), a television biopic produced by Michele Fantl and directed by [[Fiona Samuel]]<br>Depicts Mansfield's early beginnings as a writer in New Zealand; she is played by [[Kate Elliott (actress)|Kate Elliott]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-theatre/bliss-280811-video-4335362| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110926233742/http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-theatre/bliss-280811-video-4335362| archive-date = 2011-09-26| title = Sunday Theatre {{!}} Television New Zealand {{!}} Television {{!}} TV One, TV2, U, TVNZ 7}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/newspressreleases/pressrelease_2010_03_17.aspx Bliss For Platinum Fund] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219083756/http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/newspressreleases/pressrelease_2010_03_17.aspx |date=19 February 2011}}. ''[[NZ On Air]]''. Retrieved 28 August 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield; Television |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bliss-2011 |work=[[NZ On Screen]] |access-date=November 1, 2019}}</ref>

===Theatre===
* ''Katherine Mansfield 1888–1923'', dance-drama premiered at the Cell Block Theatre, Sydney in 1978, with choreography by [[Margaret Barr (choreographer)|Margaret Barr]] and script by Joan Scott, which was spoken by the dancers, an actor and actress. Two dancers played Mansfield simultaneously, as "Katherine Mansfield had spoken of herself at times as a multiple person".<ref name="Ballantyne">{{cite news |last=Ballantyne |first=Tom |title=Double image: defining Katherine Mansfield |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121278282/?terms=%22Margaret%2BBarr%22%2BMansfield |access-date=5 July 2019 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |location=Sydney, NSW, Australia |date=15 July 1978 |page=16}}</ref>
* ''The Rivers of China'' by [[Alma De Groen]], premiered at the [[Sydney Theatre Company]] in 1987; published by [[Currency Press]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The rivers of China |last=De Groen |first=Alma |date=1988 |publisher=Currency Press |isbn=0-86819-171-X |location=Sydney |oclc=19319529}}</ref>
* ''Jones & Jones'' by [[Vincent O'Sullivan (New Zealand writer)|Vincent O'Sullivan]], a Downstage commission for the Mansfield centenary in 1989;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.playmarket.org.nz/bookshop/products/jones-jones |title=Jones & Jones {{!}} Playmarket |website=www.playmarket.org.nz |access-date=2018-09-07 |archive-date=7 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907221312/https://www.playmarket.org.nz/bookshop/products/jones-jones |url-status=dead }}</ref> published by [[Victoria University Press]].

===Fiction===
[[John Middleton Murry|J. M. Murry]] wrote in ''Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence'' (1933): "I have been told, by one who should know, that the character of Gudrun in ''[[Women in Love]]'' was intended for a portrait of Katherine [Mansfield]. If this is true, it confirms me in my belief that [[D. H. Lawrence|Lawrence]] had curiously little understanding of her... And yet he was very fond of her, as she was of him."<ref>{{cite book |last=Murry |first=John Middleton |date=1933 |title=Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence |url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofd0000unse |location=New York |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |page=88}}</ref> Murry said that the fictional incident in the chapter "Gudrun in the Pompadour" – when Gudrun tears a letter from Julian Halliday's hands and storms out – was based on a true event at the [[Hotel Café Royal|Café Royal]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Murry |first=John Middleton |date=1933 |title=Reminiscences of D.H. Lawrence |url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofd0000unse |location=New York |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |pages=89–90}}</ref>

The character Sybil in the 1932 novel ''But for the Grace of God'', by Mansfield's friend [[J. W. N. Sullivan]], has several resemblances to Mansfield. Musically trained, she goes to the south of France without her husband but with a female friend, and lapses into an incurable illness that kills her.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sullivan |first=J.W.N.|date= 1932|title=But for the Grace of God |location=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape}}</ref>

The character Kathleen in [[Evelyn Schlag]]'s 1987 novel ''Die Kränkung'' (published in English as ''Quotations of a Body'') is based on Mansfield.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Sobotta |first=Monika |date=2020 |title=The Reception of Katherine Mansfield in Germany |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/69455/2/The%20Reception%20of%20Katherine%20Mansfield%20in%20Germany%20no%20personal%20info%20pdf.pdf |type= PhD|chapter=7.5 |publisher=The Open University |access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref>

[[C. K. Stead]]'s 2004 novel ''Mansfield'' depicts the writer in the period 1915-18.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Hermione |date= 29 May 2004|title=Capturing the chameleon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview20 |newspaper=The Guardian  |location=London |access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref>

Kevin Boon's 2011 novella ''Kezia'' is based on Mansfield's childhood in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |last=Romanos |first=Joseph |date=12 January 2012|title=A fresh look at Mansfield |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/6101432/A-fresh-look-at-Mansfield |newspaper= The Post |location=New Zealand |access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref>

[[Andrew Crumey]]'s 2023 novel ''[[Beethoven's Assassins]]'' has a chapter featuring Mansfield and [[Alfred Richard Orage|A. R. Orage]] at [[George Gurdjieff]]'s institute in France.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crumey |first=Andrew |date=2023 |title=Beethoven's Assassins |publisher=Dedalus |location=Sawtry |page=388 |isbn=978-1-912868-23-0}}
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====Works featuring Mansfield====
*''Mansfield, A Novel'' by [[C.K. Stead]], Harvill Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-1-84343-176-3}}
*''In Pursuit: The Katherine Mansfield Story Retold'', 2010, a novel by Joanna FitzPatrick
*''Katherine's Wish'' by [[Linda Lappin]], Wordcraft of Oregon, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-877655-58-6}}
*''Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp'', 1989, a short story collection by [[Witi Ihimaera]]
*''My Katherine Mansfield Project'' by [[Kirsty Gunn]], {{ISBN|978-1-910749-04-3}}
*''Spring'' by [[Ali Smith]], Penguin, 2019, {{ISBN|978-0-241-97335-6}}
*''[[Beethoven's Assassins]]'' by [[Andrew Crumey]], Dedalus, 2023, {{ISBN|978-1-912868-23-0}}
* "My Little Governess" in ''Virginia's Sisters: An Anthology of Women's Writing'', Aurora Metro Books, 2023, {{ISBN|9781912430789}}

===Adaptations of Mansfield's work===
* "Chai Ka Ek Cup", an episode from the 1986 Indian anthology television series ''[[Katha Sagar]]'' was adapted from "[[A Cup of Tea]]" by [[Shyam Benegal]].
* ''Mansfield with Monsters'' (Steam Press, 2012), Katherine Mansfield with Matt Cowens and Debbie Cowens<ref>[http://www.steampress.co.nz/monsters.html Mansfield with Monsters]. ''Steam Press, NZ''. Retrieved 18 September 2013.</ref>
* ''The Doll's House'' (1973), directed by [[Rudall Hayward]]<ref>[http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/rudall-hayward NZ on Screen Filmography of Rudall Hayward]. Retrieved 17 June 2011.</ref>
* ''"A Dill Pickle"'', a chamber opera by Matt Malsky was adapted from Mansfield's short story of the same name. It was premiered in October 2021 by the Worcester Chamber Music Society (Worcester MA US) and released on compact disc.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/matt-malsky-a-dill-pickle|title=Matt Malsky: A Dill Pickle|publisher=Neuma Records|access-date=11 May 2024}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[New Zealand literature]]
* [[New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize]]
* [[List of Bloomsbury Group people]]

==References==
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* {{cite web|url= https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stories/curated-collections/impressions-of-katherine-mansfield/ |title= Impressions of Katherine Mansfield at Nga Taonga (audiovisual items) |publisher= Nga Taonga (NZ)  |date= 2023}}
* {{cite web|url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-208662.html |title= Katherine Mansfield at New Zealand Electronic Text Collection |publisher=  NZETC |date= 2023}}
* [http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/ Katherine Mansfield Society]
* [https://www.katherinemansfield.com/ Katherine Mansfield House and Garden]
* [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/325 Katherine Mansfield Papers] at [[the Newberry Library]]
* [https://natlib.govt.nz/researchers/guides/katherine-mansfield Guide to Katherine Mansfield collections] at the [[National Library of New Zealand|Alexander Turnbull Library]]
* {{DNZB|title=Katherine Mansfield biography|id=3M42|plainlink=y}} from the ''[[Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]]''
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* [http://www.pridenz.com/queer_history_katherine_mansfield.html Audio discussion] about Katherine Mansfield and her female lovers, PrideNZ.com
* [https://www.bl.uk/people/katherine-mansfield Katherine Mansfield] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910034311/https://www.bl.uk/people/katherine-mansfield |date=10 September 2016 }} at the British Library
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944195/?ref_=ra_sb_ln Katherine Mansfield] at the IMDB

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