Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

About Katherine Mansfield:


Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

Author Bio


  • NameKatherine Mansfield
  • DescriptionNew Zealand author
  • AliasesKatherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry; Kathleen Murry
  • BornOctober 14, 1888
  • DiedJanuary 9, 1923
  • CountryNew Zealand
  • ProfessionWriter