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Katherine Mansfield

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    (October 14, 1888-January 9, 1923)
    Birth name is Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
    Wrote ‘In a German Pension (1911),' ‘Prelude (1918),' ‘Bliss and Other Stories (1920),' ‘The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922),' ‘The Dove's Nest and Other Stories (1923),' ‘Something Childish and Other Stories (1924)' and ‘The Aloe (1930)'

Why she might be annoying:

    When a teenager, she wrote ‘Damn my family! O Heavens what bores they are!'
    She left her first husband almost immediately after their marriage.
    Her first book ‘In a German Pension' mocked the German expatriates she met abroad.
    She had an off and on friendship with D.H. Lawrence (who once called her a ‘loathsome reptile').
    A cellist, she sometimes wore brown to go with her instrument.
    She refused to enter a sanatorium when diagnosed with tuberculosis, probably hastening her death.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She is New Zealand's best known writer and her stories have never gone out of print.
    Her nonlinear, yet accessible, style modernized twentieth century fiction.
    Her mother was reportedly cold and indifferent towards her.
    Her much loved brother Leslie was killed in World War One.
    Her only known pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
    Virginia Woolf said the only writer she was jealous of was Mansfield.

Credit: Georgina


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 94 Votes: 54.26% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 66 Votes: 53.03% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 474 Votes: 31.86% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 108 Votes: 54.63% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 624 Votes: 41.19% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 1719 Votes: 40.61% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 75 Votes: 54.67% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 188 Votes: 46.81% Annoying