Katherine Mansfield Murray (1888-1923) was a New Zealand writer and journalist. After childhood and education between her homeland and Continental Europe she settled in London, where she was associated with the Bloomsbury Group. She published many short stories and some poetry under the name Katherine Mansfield. At 29 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and she died six years later in France, where she had been pursuing alternative treatments. In 1922, a year before her death, Mansfield published her best known work, “The Garden Party”, in the Saturday Westminster Gazette, then as part of The Garden Party and Other Stories that same year. For people interested in such things it might be noted that in the 1931 American First Modern Library Edition from which I was working (obviously not pictured), and apparently in other editions, the title and titular phrase is hyphenated as “Garden-Party” in the running head and the text itself, though not in the table of contents. The work is introduced and indexed as “The Garden Party” yet read as “The Garden-Party”.
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