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Biography Katherine Mansfield
- Time Period -
- PlaceWellington
- CountryNew Zealand
Poet Biography
Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, in , into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand.Katherine mansfield biography cortado
The daughter of a banker and born to a middle-class colonial family, she was also a first cousin of author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. Mansfield had two older sisters and a younger brother, born in Her father, Harold Beauchamp, went on to become the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was also knighted.
The Mansfield family moved to Karori in , where Mansfield would spend the happiest years of her childhood; she later used her memories of this time as an inspiration for the Prelude story. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine (the family returned to Wellington proper in ), in and She became enamoured with a cellist, Arnold Trowell (Mansfield herself was an accomplished cellist,