Katherine Mansfield

Nearly sixty years after her death, the name Katherine Mansfield still projects a sharp, strong presence.

Katherine Mansfield's Secrets Tomalin, Claire 1980

Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89 Elaine Woo 2011

The portrait of Woolf's intellectual world is more successful—T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, her brother's striving Cambridge friends and the Bloomsbury group.

The Lives of A Novelist Mira Sethi 2011

And off he walked down Euston Road, away from me and my shirt, shorts, loafers and bag full of stories by Katherine Mansfield.

That Saturday Ralph Williams 2011

When it opens in November, the museum at Menton, near Monaco – the town that was a holiday retreat of both Winston Churchill and author Katherine Mansfield – hopes to become the biggest single collection of Cocteau works.

Jean Cocteau: France in uproar over museum 'fakes' 2011

When I wrote my analysis of Sapphic themes in works by Katherine Mansfield I sat at the big window, with a view of the lawn and trees of the university complex.

That Saturday Ralph Williams 2011

Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield's 1922 story The Doll's House - the first adult short story she ever read - in which the gift of the perfect dolls' house to the children of a wealthy family shows up the deep social divisions in their village community.

Short stories: Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield 2011

Flaubert and Maupassant had their effects thirty years ago, the great Russians likewise, as for instance, on the Katherine Mansfield school, with its patient attention to trivial detail, but in Proust there was no British writer whose style had been seriously affected by him.

From the archive, 19 January 1929: Modern novelists under attack 2012

Biographical Information: A professor of English at Wellesley College, Berkman was a writer of short stories and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Critical Study (1951).

Personal Information for Sylvia Berkman Jewish Women's Archive 2010