Katherine Mansfield (the writing name of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14 October 1888. She died at Fontainebleau, France, on 9 January 1923. During her brief career she profoundly altered the shape and status of the short story. This study analyses her technique and traces back the material for all her finest stories to its origins in her place of birth. She is one of the very few writers from the...