The Garden Party

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A selection of short tales covering different topics written by a famous author in New Zealand.

The selection includes: At the Bay; The Garden Party; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Mr. and Mrs. Dove; The Young Girl; Life of Ma Parker; Marriage a la Mode; The Voyage; Miss Brill; Her First Ball; The Singing Lesson; The Stranger; Bank Holiday; An Ideal Family; and The Lady’s-Maid.

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a remarkable New Zealand modernist short fiction author who was born and raised in regal New Zealand and composed using the pseudonym of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 years old, Katherine migrated to United Kingdom, where she became a close friend of modernist authors like D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. She died at 34 years old due to extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Katherine’s real name was Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp. Her parents were socially sophisticated in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father was a financer and she was a cousin of the novelist Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. She had two elder sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was the head of the Bank of New Zealand and was titled. Her grandfather was Arthur Beauchamp, who shortly delegated the Picton electorate in Parliament. Her family later went from Thorndon to Karori, where Katherine spent the most blissful times of her younger days. She made use of most of her recalls of those days as an encouragement for the Prelude tale.

Her first produced tales are seen in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls’ High School magazine, the family went back to Wellington. Then she fell in love with Arnold Trowell, a cellist, but Arnold does not feel the same way for her. Katherine herself was a successful cellist, having been taught by Arnold’s father.
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