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Katherine Mansfield Unit 7 An Ideal Family Major Works In a German Pension(1911) The Woman at the store(1912) The prelude(1918) Bliss and Other Stories(1920) Garden Party and Other Stories(1922) At the Bay(1922) The Canary(1922) The Fly(1922) The Dove’s Nest, and Other stories(1923) Something Childish(1924) Brief introduction of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield has acquired an international reputation as a writer of short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews. Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family. Her father was an ambitious businessman and her mother was a fastidious and delicate woman. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as?D.H. Lawrence?and?Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with?extra pulmonary?tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34. The New Dawn Katherine Mansfield was one of a “new dawn” in English literature with T S Elliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world. Nevertheless, Mansfield was a New Zealand writer - she could not have written as she did had she not gone to live in England and France, but she could not have done her best work if she had not had firm roots in her native land. She used her memories in her writing from the beginning, people, the places, even the colloquial speech of the country form the fabric of much of her best work. Significance Mansfield’s stories were the first of significance in English to be written without a conventional plot. Supplanting the strictly structured plots of her predecessors in the genre (Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells), Mansfield concentrated on one moment, a crisis or a turning point, rather than on a sequence of events. The plot is