Katherine Mansfield (redirected from Kate Mansfield)

Mansfield, Katherine 

(pseudonym of Kathleen Beauchamp). Born Oct. 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand; died Jan. 9, 1923, in Fontainebleau, France. British author.

The daughter of a banker, Mansfield was educated in Great Britain. Her short stories (the collections In a German Pension[1911], Bliss and Other Stories[1920], and The Garden Party and Other Stories [1922]) are distinguished for their subtle psychological insight and uncompromising attitude toward the petit bourgeois world and its mores. Mansfield’s sense of the drama of everyday life is reminiscent of Chekhov’s short stories. Her posthumously published reviews, letters, and diaries are of considerable interest.

WORKS

Journal London, 1954.
Collected Stories. London, 1956.
The Letters. London, 1928.
In Russian translation:
Rasskazy. [Introductory article by M. Shereshevskaia.] Moscow, 1958.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 3. Moscow, 1958. Pages 103–04.
Alpers, A. K. Mansfield. London, 1956.
Murry, J. M. K. Mansfield and Other Literary Studies. London, 1959.
Magalaner, M. The Fiction of K. Mansfield. Carbondale, 111., 1971.

E. A. GUSEVA