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Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

Autor(a) de The Garden Party

357+ Works 7,627 Membros 150 Críticas 66 Favorited

About the Author

Katherine Mansfield was born Katherine Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand on October 14, 1888, the third daughter of a prominent banker. She attended the Wellington College for Girls before entering Queen's College in London in 1903. Her interest in the cello led to lessons at the Royal Academy mostrar mais of Music, where she became secretly engaged to a young prodigy named Arnold Trowell, who already had a successful concert career. Upon being summoned back to New Zealand by her father in 1906, she decided to abandon music in favor of writing. She soon had three stories published in a Melbourne monthly and gained her father's consent to return to England. Once there, she became depressed when she found that Trowell no longer loved her, and she rushed into a hasty marriage to a young musician, only to leave him a few days later. She had a miscarriage, which marked the beginning of her decline in health. After returning to England in 1910, Katherine Beauchamp published her work under the name Katherine Mansfield. A collection of her stories, "In a German Pension," was published in 1911. A year later, she met John Middleton Murry, who eventually became her second husband when she was finally able to secure a divorce. By the time of this marriage in 1918, Mansfield was found to have tuberculosis. Her ill health, combined with the death of her brother in World War I, turned the focus of her work inward and on her homeland. Her memoirs, collected in a book entitled "Bliss," secured her reputation as a writer, and she followed it up with the equally acclaimed "Garden Party and Other Stories." Her lyrical style and stream of consciousness method placed her along side James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for her strength of characterization and her subtlety of detail. Katherine Mansfield died on January 9, 1923 at the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonic Development of Man at Fontainebleau. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)

Séries

Obras por Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party (1922) 1,480 exemplares
Bliss and Other Stories (1921) 711 exemplares
In a German Pension (1911) 493 exemplares
Stories (1991) 380 exemplares
Journal (1927) 252 exemplares
Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1956) 154 exemplares
Miss Brill - 3 stories (2015) 140 exemplares
At the Bay (1954) 91 exemplares
The Aloe (1930) 87 exemplares
The Escape (1995) 83 exemplares
The Montana Stories (2001) 77 exemplares
The Garden Party - short story (1922) 75 exemplares
The Doll's House (1935) 68 exemplares
Prelude (Modern Voices) (1918) 59 exemplares
The Dove's Nest and Other Stories (1923) 59 exemplares
The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks (2002) 56 exemplares
Miss Brill - short story (1600) 29 exemplares
Twelve stories (1777) 24 exemplares
Poems (1923) 23 exemplares
Alla baia e altri racconti (2011) 19 exemplares
Novels and Novelists (1930) 18 exemplares
The Fly (2013) 17 exemplares
Racconti (2001) 16 exemplares
The Urewera notebook (1978) 15 exemplares
34 Short Stories (1957) 14 exemplares
Le Voyage indiscret (1950) 13 exemplares
Classic Women's Short Stories (2001) 13 exemplares
Seligkeit. (1987) 11 exemplares
Preludium och andra noveller (1971) 11 exemplares
Meistererzählungen (1995) 10 exemplares
Stories for Summer (1992) 9 exemplares
The Garden Party (2015) 9 exemplares
The Canary and Other Stories (2005) 9 exemplares
Wild Places: Selected Stories (2023) 8 exemplares
Relatos breves (2000) 8 exemplares
Je ne parle pas français (1992) 8 exemplares
Felicidade e Outros Contos (2007) 8 exemplares
Felicidad y otros cuentos (2016) 8 exemplares
Les nouvelles (2006) 8 exemplares
Erzählungen und Tagebücher (1974) 8 exemplares
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3 (2007) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
15 Contos Escolhidos (19/30) (1900) 6 exemplares
Poemetti 6 exemplares
The Garden Party: Five Short Stories (1983) — Autor — 5 exemplares
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020) 5 exemplares
A cup of tea (2000) 5 exemplares
Her First Ball (2014) 5 exemplares
Racconti neozelandesi 5 exemplares
A Dill Pickle (2013) 4 exemplares
Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day (1990) 4 exemplares
The Voyage: Short Story (2014) 4 exemplares
Mr. and Mrs. Dove (2014) 4 exemplares
The Lady's Maid (1922) 4 exemplares
Contos (2005) 4 exemplares
En una pensión alemana. (1990) 4 exemplares
Quaderno d'appunti (2011) 4 exemplares
Fiesta en el jardín (1990) 4 exemplares
Cinco Contos (2002) 3 exemplares
Noveller (2019) 3 exemplares
Poems by Katherine Mansfield (1930) 3 exemplares
Stories By Katherine Mansfield (1934) 3 exemplares
Neue Kleider. Erzählungen (1987) 3 exemplares
Sunce i mjesec (1991) 3 exemplares
Über die Liebe (1995) 3 exemplares
Short Stories One (1991) 3 exemplares
Life of Ma Parker (2014) 3 exemplares
Psychology 3 exemplares
Puur geluk en andere verhalen (2023) 3 exemplares
The Singing Lesson (2014) 3 exemplares
Félicité (1997) 3 exemplares
An Ideal Family (2014) 3 exemplares
Dicha & Preludio (1994) 3 exemplares
Dagboksblad och brev 3 exemplares
El alma moderna y otros cuentos (2022) 3 exemplares
Reisen in den Sommer (1999) 3 exemplares
The Complete Short Stories (2021) 3 exemplares
The Stranger: Short Story (2014) 3 exemplares
La felicidad 3 exemplares
La criatura terrestre — Autor — 2 exemplares
Garden Party e altri racconti (1992) 2 exemplares
La passione della scrittura (1999) 2 exemplares
BEATITUDINE. (1960) 2 exemplares
Koyda (Turkish Edition) (2019) 2 exemplares
Marriage & families (2013) 2 exemplares
In Bavaria (2013) 2 exemplares
Sex & Lies (2013) 2 exemplares
Prelude & Other Stories (2021) 2 exemplares
Numa Pensao Alema (2009) 2 exemplares
Seven Short Stories (1CD audio) (2014) 2 exemplares
Cahier de notes (1944) 2 exemplares
Glück: Erzählungen (1986) 2 exemplares
Feuille d'Album 2 exemplares
Jej pierwszy bal 2 exemplares
Something Childish 2 exemplares
Six Stories (1957) 2 exemplares
Bliss, Feuille d'Album (2000) 2 exemplares
Briefe (1992) 2 exemplares
The Young Girl (2014) 2 exemplares
Främlingen 1 exemplar
In una pensione tedesca (2009) 1 exemplar
Opowiadania 1 exemplar
Felicità 1 exemplar
Dein großes Herz 1 exemplar
Bank Holiday (2014) 1 exemplar
Güneş İle Ay 1 exemplar
1919 1 exemplar
Honeymoon 1 exemplar
Germans at Meat 1 exemplar
Oeuvre romanesque 1 exemplar
1: Felicita 1 exemplar
2: ‰Garden-party 1 exemplar
Lettere e diari 1 exemplar
CARTAS 1 exemplar
Mr Reginald Peacock's Day (2009) 1 exemplar
Psicologia e altri racconti (1996) 1 exemplar
Poesie 1 exemplar
Lettere 1 exemplar
Contos Completos 1 exemplar
Not quite poetry (2006) 1 exemplar
“A Party” 1 exemplar
Nuovi racconti 1 exemplar
Päiväkirjani (2023) 1 exemplar
Los Burnell (2023) 1 exemplar
Psychologie 1 exemplar
Taking the Veil 1 exemplar
Four poems (Pamphilet) (1981) 1 exemplar
Ah Bu Rüzgâr 1 exemplar
La evasión 1 exemplar
Duje vítr 1 exemplar
Diario: 1910-1922 1 exemplar
Tales Of A Courtyard (2010) 1 exemplar
Nouvelles, anglais-français (2000) 1 exemplar
Jurnal trist 1 exemplar
Diario: 1910-1922 (2010) 1 exemplar
Juwelen 1 exemplar
L' aloe (1999) 1 exemplar
His Little Friend 1 exemplar
Cuentos 1 exemplar
Yolculuk 1 exemplar
Daphne 1 exemplar
A Man And His Dog 1 exemplar
A Bad Idea 1 exemplar
All Serene! 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
Tagebuch (1975) 1 exemplar
Listy 1 exemplar
La oscilación del péndulo (1997) 1 exemplar
Six Years After 1 exemplar
COCUKSU BIR SEY 1 exemplar
ALBUM YAPRAGI 1 exemplar
Dramatic sketches (1989) 1 exemplar
Widowed 1 exemplar
Weak Heart 1 exemplar
Honesty 1 exemplar
Second Violin 1 exemplar
Susannah 1 exemplar
Kun olin lintu 1 exemplar

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Love Letters (1996) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 120 exemplares
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Outstanding Short Stories [Penguin Readers] (1982) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics (2005) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Modern Short Stories (1939) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Virago Book of Such Devoted Sisters (1993) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
New Zealand Short Stories: 1st Series (1953) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Modern English Short Stories (1939) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories (2019) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
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Fairy Poems (2023) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Uomini che non ho sposato (2016) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women (2023) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
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Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Love Stories: Classic Tales of Romance (2010) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
31 Stories (1960) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Growing Up Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope (2021) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 (2006) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Laatunovelleja (1998) 8 exemplares
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Ein Lesebuch, Klassiker der Moderne (1989) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Meesters der Engelse vertelkunst (1957) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
New Zealand Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (2000) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Twelve Short Masterpieces (1986) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Top Teen Stories (2004) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
A book of shorter stories (1962) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Story Survey (1953) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Thirteen Short Stories (1968) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Best British Short Stories of 1923 (1923) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Eighteen Stories (1965) 4 exemplares
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume I (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Child's Ploy (1984) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing (2015) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Immortal Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Husbands and Lovers (1949) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
London Unplugged (2021) — original short story, segment "Pictures" — 2 exemplares
El cuento literario (2008) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
To You With Love: A Treasury of Great Romantic Literature (1969) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Representative Modern Short Stories (1929) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Travel & Adventure: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Golden Book Magazine - February 1934 (Volume XIX, No. 110) (1934) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Even op verhaal komen — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Virginia's Sisters: An anthology of women's writing (2023) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
After the Fair and Other Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Stories of Adolescence (1979) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Noels he llegit tots. He llegit del llibre d'anglès: Prelude, At the Bay i The doll house.
He llegit també. La festa al jardí, Felicitat, La senyoreta Brill, La mosca i Revelacions,
M'ha agradat més que la primera vegada, fa 13 anys.
La traducció en catalana és millor que l'espanyola.
La sessió de posada en comú del llibre ha sigut molt interessant i m'ha fet venir ganes de llegir més contes d'aquesta magnífica escriptora.
 
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marialluisa | 11 outras críticas | Feb 13, 2024 |
J’ai lu un peu de Virginia Woolf ces derniers temps, et j’ai appris qu’elle avait une relation ambiguë au travail de sa contemporaine Katherine Mansfield. J’ai donc écouté avec curiosité cette nouvelle, qui se qualifie aisément de nouvelle psychologique. Ce n’est pas vraiment un genre que j’apprécie particulièrement, mais le style feutré de Katherine Mansfield est agréable à lire et j’ai passé un bon moment en compagnie des personnages qu’elle met en scène avec beaucoup de douceur et de non-dits.… (mais)
 
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raton-liseur | Nov 29, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
357
Also by
126
Membros
7,627
Popularidade
#3,203
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
150
ISBN
713
Línguas
21
Marcado como favorito
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