“Something Childish But Very Natural”
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Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
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culture · New Zealand author (1888–1923) · writer · diarist · poet · prose writer · also Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Murry, Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry, Kathleen Murry, Mansfield
Born 14 October 1888 · Died 9 January 1923 · Q270632
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2026· 2 entries
Queerty: 20th century literary titan Katherine Mansfield’s secret seaside diaries reveal queer lust & a creative awakening
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2022· 2 entries
The Atlantic: Journal of Katherine Mansfield
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The Atlantic: Katherine Mansfield in France
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2017· 1 entry
The New Criterion: The remains of Katherine Mansfield
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2012· 1 entry
Italian singer-songwriter Giovanni Del Grillo dedicated to Manfield's last days in Fontainebleau the song 'La Terza Via', included in his first album 'Qui Frinisce Male'
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1980· 1 entry
Italian author Pietro Citati wrote a short biography of Mansfield called “Vita breve di Katherine Mansfield” which won Premio Bagutta 1980
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1978· 1 entry
With choreography by Margaret Barr and script by Joan Scott, which was spoken by the dancers, an actor and actress
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1923· 5 entries
Died 1923-01-09.
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“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.”
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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.”
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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
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And Something Childish in 1924); a volume of poems; The Aloe; Novels and Novelists; and collections of her letters and journals
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1919· 1 entry
Separated from her second husband Frank Russell, the elder brother of Bertrand Russell - to be rather patronising
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1913· 1 entry
In an attempt to alleviate Mansfield's ill health
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1911· 1 entry
That culminated in their marriage in 1918, but she left him in 1911 and again in 1913
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1910· 1 entry
Mansfield submitted a lightweight story to Rhythm, a new avant-garde magazine
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1908· 1 entry
Mansfield quickly fell into a bohemian way of life
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1907· 1 entry
But it is claimed that she sent money to Mansfield in London
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1906· 1 entry
“I want Maata—I want her as I have had her—terribly. This is unclean I know but true.”
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1903· 1 entry
Where she attended Queen's College with her sisters
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1902· 1 entry
At age 13–14, Mansfield became enamoured of Arnold Trowell, a cellist, but her feelings were for the most part not reciprocated
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1893· 1 entry
For health reasons, the Beauchamp family moved from Thorndon to the country suburb of Karori, where Mansfield spent the happiest years of her childhood
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1888· 2 entries
Born 1888-10-14.
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Into a socially prominent Wellington family in Thorndon
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