Katherine mansfield

1. Spencer Safty Katherine Mansfield

2. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.” -Katherine Mansfield

3. Background Katherine was born 1888 in Wellington, New Zeleand Her father, Harold Beauchamp, became the chairman of the bank of New Zeleand and eventually became knighted She was the middle child of three sisters and one brother It is said she experienced two pregnancies in her early adulthood which led to her sexual proscimity Which led to her various partners and bisexual experiences Eventually when she was 23 she met John Middleton Murry and got married Their marrage was tarnished by her affairs, their careers, and her discovery of her disease In 1918 she discovered she had teberculosis

4. Unfortanate Last Years Full of depression Her relationship with Murry was distant She spent a majority of her time searching for cures, but found no hope January 9, 1923 she suffered a fatal pulmonary hemorrhage

5. Short Stories The Woman At The Store ( 1912) How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (1912 ) Millie ( 1913) Something Childish But Very Natural (1914 ) The Little Governess (1915 ) Pictures (1917 ) Feuille d'Album ( 1917) A Dill Pickle ( 1917) Je ne parle pas français (1917 ) Prelude (1918 ) An Indiscreet Journey (1920 ) Bliss (1920 ) Miss Brill (1920 ) Psychology (1920 ) Sun and Moon (1920 ) The Wind Blows ( 1920) Mr Reginald Peacock's Day (1920 )

6. Mode (1921 ) The Voyage (1921 ) Her First Ball (1921 ) Mr and Mrs Dove (1921 ) Life of Ma Parker (1921 ) The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1921 ) The Little Girl (1912 ) The Stranger (1921 ) The Man Without a Temperament (1921 ) At The Bay (1922 ) The Fly (1922 ) The Garden Party (1922 ) A Cup of Tea (1922 ) The Doll's House (1922 ) A Married Man's Story (1923 ) The Canary (1923 ) The Singing Lesson An Ideal Family

7. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and Wellington Girls High School Magazine in 1898 Became an editor of their school newspaper while attending Queens College Her first paid writing works were in the Native Companion (Australia) Most of her most famous pieces came in the final and most tragic years of her life

8. Writing Style - Modernist - discriptive , full of symbols, metaphors, and tons of imagery - Characters are generally warm-hearted and sensitive “Katherine’s stories consist of every day concerns. Her aim was to make the reader see” ( Loveybear )

9. Influences Influenced by her surroundings clearly, her exposure to much of the world and sexual encounters Anton Checkhov greatly impacted her style, she even quotes him in letters Dorothy Richardson D.H. Lawrence Doestoveski

10. Her impact She helped create the Modernist style of writing - which is seen in every author today Influenced women liberatarianism

11. Works Cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Katherine_Mansfield http://www.poemhunter.com/katherine-mansfield/biography / http://www.slideshare.net/guest177d781/ekm-pwrpnt- 3390779 http://loveybear.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/katherine-mansfield-writing-style/