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Katherine Mansfield once said, “I want, by understanding myself, to understand others” (“Affirmations, Quotes, and Thoughts”). ... Whether she was writing poems or short stories, Mansfield always invoked everyday human experiences and inner feelings into her work (Marcus 166). ... Katherine Mansfield’s brilliant use of life experiences in her work helped her earn the recognition as a gifted writer and an innovator of the modern short story.
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp was born on October 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand. ... In a German Pension, which was published in 1911, contains characters whose life experiences are similar to those experienced by Mansfield as a child in Wellington. ...
At the age of fourteen, Mansfield was sent to London to be educated at Queens College, where she remained from 1903-1906 (Knopf v). ... In 1906, Mansfield returned to Wellington against her own will. ...
Mansfield convinced her parents to let her return to London in 1909 (Knopf x). ... Mansfield contributed to the paper from 1910 to 1911. ...
Katherine Mansfield’s life took a turn in December 1911 when she met John Middleton Murry. ... Mansfield began to write stories regularly for the publication (Knopf x). ... Mansfield and Murry began to edit the Blue Review, Rhythm’s successor, but by the end of the year their attempt to be writers was cut short by Murry’s bankruptcy. When Mansfield’s relationship with Murry appeared to be falling apart in 1915, she moved to Paris. ...
Before her return to Murry, Katherine Mansfield met with her younger brother Leslie, who was serving as an officer in England. ... This influenced Mansfield to dedicate herself to recreating life as she had lived and felt in New Zealand (Knopf x). ...
Two years later in 1918 when Virginia Woolf asked for a story for her Hogarth Press, Mansfield turned The Aloe into Prelude.
Approximate Word count = 1482
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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