The longer I live the more I turn to New Zealand. I thank God I was born in New Zealand. A young country is a real heritage, though it takes onetime to recognize it. But New Zealand is in my very bones. What I wouldn’t give to have a look at it!
Katherine Mansfield Quotes
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
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| Birth: | 14th October, 1888 |
| Death: | 9th January, 1923 |
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Katherine Mansfield 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. When she was 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.
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