10 Facts about Katherine Mansfield:

1. Her father accepted her want for musical training in England and she arrived again in London in August 1908, “Katherine Mansfield” she decided was her pen-name.

2. In the Queen’s College Magazine she published ‘About Pat’ her first re-creation of childhood in Karori and ‘Die Einsame.’

O'Sullivan, Vincent. "New Zealand Writers." New Zealand Book Council. New Zealand Book Council. 25

                Feb 2007. <http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/mansfieldk.html#recent>.

1. After attending Queen College she then returned to New Zealand for two years, before going back to London to pursue a literary career.

2. With little money, she met, married and left her first husband, George Bowden, all within just three weeks. She became pregnant and then miscarried which led to her publishing her first collection of Short stories The German Pension in 1911.

Luscombe, Stephen. "Katherine Mansfield." The British Empire. The British Empire. 25 Feb 2007                 <http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/mansfield.htm>.

1.  Is noted for her short stories with themes relating to women's lives and social hierarchies as well as her sense of wit and characterizations.
2. After her death of a lung hemorrhage in early 1923, her widower exploited her work, as "he profited from the publication of stories that Mansfield had rejected for publication, as well as notebook jottings, intermittent diaries, and letters," stated Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Thomson, Gale. "Encyclopedia of World Biography on Katherine Mansfield." Katherine Mansfield

                Biography. 2006. 25 Feb 2007 <http://www.bookrags.com/biography/katherine-mansfield/>.

1. 1888–1923, British author, b. New Zealand, regarded as one of the masters of the short story.
2. Her original name was Kathleen Beauchamp.

M, Scott. "Mansfield, Katherine."The Columbia Encyclopedia . 6th ed. 2001.

1. During her first year in London, she embarked on various relationships and published very little -  only one poem and one story. 
2. Pregnant to Garnet Trowell, the son of her childhood music teacher in New Zealand, she married George Bowden, a singing teacher considerably older than herself, whom she left almost immediately. 

"Katherine Mansfield." Katherine Mansfield Birthplace. 2005. Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society.                             25 Feb 2007 <http://www.katherinemansfield.com/mansfield/>.

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