English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1526 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Katherine Mansfield
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The idea
Katherine Mansfield, born in New Zealand, settled in England and became an important Modernist short-story writer, influenced by Chekhov. Her stories explore anxiety, sexuality and identity. Diagnosed with tuberculosis in nineteen seventeen, she died at thirty-four.
In practice
The modern short story, from New Zealand.
Where people slip
Mansfield wrote only short fiction.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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