BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS LIBRA: KATHERINE MANSFIELD

(born Oct. 4, 1888, Wellington, N.Z.—died Jan. 9, 1923, Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France) New Zealand-born British writer. After moving to England at age 19, she secured her reputation with the story collection Bliss (1920). She reached the height of her powers in the collection The Garden Party (1922). Her delicate stories, which focus on psychological conflicts, are written in a distinctive prose style with poetic overtones that shows the influence of Anton Chekhov. Her last five years were shadowed by tuberculosis, of which she died at age 34.

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