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About Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.

Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. She began school in Karori with her sisters, before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship.

Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality, Christianity, and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France aged 34.

Katherine Mansfield writes about Fiction, Social life and customs, 20th century, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Short stories, and New Zealand. Their best-known work is Bliss, and other stories.

On FindMyTBR we track 96 books by Katherine Mansfield, 96 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Birthday, A Dill Pickle, and A Dill Pickle: A Classic Psychological Short Story of Love, Power, and Emotional Control. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.