Katherine Mansfield (
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Maiden name
Beauchamp
Short biography
A famous New Zealand modernist writer, Mansfield moved to England in 1903 and settled permanently there in 1908.
Full biography
In April 1916, she stayed with D.H. and Frieda Lawrence at Higher Tregerthan, Zennor, before moving to Mylor in June with John Middleton Murray. She would return to Cornwall for six weeks in 1918, staying in Looe with Anne Estelle Rice, an American painter, in the hopes of recovering from her recently diagonised tuberculosis. Continuing to write and to seek cures for her illness, Mansfield would die from tuberculosis in 1923.
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Katherine Mansfield, taken by the Adelphi Studio, The Strand in 1914.
Date of birth
14 October 1888
Place of birth
Wellington, New Zealand
Date of death
09 January 1923
Place of death
Fontainebleu, Île-de-France, France
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Anne Estelle Rice
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Friend