| Bliss and Other Stories. By: Katherine Mansfield (Original Classics) Contributor(s): Mansfield, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 153506143X ISBN-13: 9781535061438 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.43 lbs) 138 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer 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.Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father was a banker and she was a cousin of the author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. She had two older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother, born in 1894. Her father, Harold |