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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908.âŚ
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1 author picked The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I *adore* Katherine Mansfieldâs work. She wrote short stories, not novels.
She was still rather young when she died of tuberculosis. Her portrayals of love, family, and especially of children, are for me gloriously wonderful with insight and perceptiveness about relationships. From the New Zealand settings of many of her stories (where she was born and grew up), she emigrated to London, then to France (where she received medical treatment for TB), and Switzerland (also for treatment for TBâunsuccessful).
She seems to me a lonely geniusâperceiving deeply not only other persons (of many sorts) on whom she modeled her shortâŚ
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