Katherine Mansfield Writer

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. 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 extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Murray Katherine Mansfield; Beauchamp Katherine Mansfield
Pseudonym	Katherine Mansfield
Birth date	October 14, 1888
Birth place	Wellington , New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Date of death	January 09, 1923
Place of death	Fontainebleau , Fourth Way
Spouse	John Middleton Murry
Relatives	Elizabeth von Arnim Harold Beauchamp Arthur Beauchamp