Katherine Mansfield

1888–1923 (age 35)

Biography

Katherine Mansfield, a luminous figure of modernist letters, captured the subtleties of human experience in short stories filled with emotional vividness and psychological nuance.

Her brief life left an outsized impression on English-language literature, and today the Avon Cemetery guards her memory with the quiet dignity her writing always sought.

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