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Katherine Mansfield
Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (Wikipedia).
Bliss & Other Stories
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Frequently asked questions
What is the significance of the quote on the title page?
Mansfield chose a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One for the title page: out of this nettle danger, we pluck the flower safety. This epigraph reflects the tension between perceived security and underlying instability that permeates many of the stories in the collection.
How does this collection relate to the author's other works?
This 1920 volume was the collection that firmly established Mansfield's reputation as a leading modernist writer. It serves as a precursor to her later, equally celebrated collection, The Garden Party and Other Stories, which was published two years later.