Born: 14 October 1888, New Zealand
Died: 9 January 1923
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Kathleen Beauchamp, Kathleen Beauchamp Bowden, Kathleen Murry
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a major modernist writer who wrote as Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, she left colonial 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. In spite of her assertion that ‘I shall not be “fashionable” long’, she gained an international reputation as a writer of short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews. Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages.