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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).
The Garden Party
Synopsis
A wealthy family in New Zealand plans an extravagant garden party even as their impoverished neighbor dies just across the road, forcing a reckoning between privilege and empathy. Told through the eyes of young Laura Sheridan, the story traces her gradual awakening to the divide between her sheltered world and that of those around her.
Genres
Characters
Laura SheridanProtagonist
Mrs. SheridanSupporting