New Zealand homes of Katherine Mansfield [photographs].

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New Zealand homes of Katherine Mansfield [photographs].

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One photo of the house where Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Two views of Chesney Wold, Mansfield's childhood home on Karori Road that is now Tinakori Road. Another photo depicts the house where the family lived prior to Mansfield leaving for schooling in England. The last two photos show Fitzherbert Terrace where she lived from 1906-1908 before departing again for England and the entrance memorial erected by her father in front of the home.

6 photographs; 16 x 21 cm. or smaller.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923

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Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand, and also lived in England. During her Bohemian and rather brief life, she made significant contributions to the art of short story writing as a major 20th century writer. Her fiction is characterized by crisp metaphorical prose, a graceful yet inescapable sense of irony, and, above all, a unique and irresistible degree of observation. From the description of Katherine Mansfield letters, 1913. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). Worl...