Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923), known as Katherine Mansfield, was a New Zealand writer and literary critic, and an important figure in the Modernist movement. Although she wrote poetry as well, today she is best known for her short stories –and perhaps best of all ‘The Garden Party’. Mansfield’s work gave deep and evocative depictions of New Zealand identity; and in latter years she has been claimed as a Queer icon as many of her tales are widely read as portraying same-sex relationships.