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Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) 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.
John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 – 12 March 1957) [1] was an English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime.
In a German Pension is a 1911 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield; her first published collection.All but three of the stories were originally published in The New Age edited by A. R. Orage; the first to appear was "The Child-Who-Was-Tired".
Rosabel's fantasies instantiate escapism, particularly in relation to her social class.During her commute, Rosabel is disgusted by a young woman reading about 'a hot, voluptuous night, a band playing, and a girl with lovely, white shoulders' in a middle-brow novel (p. 1); however, Rosabel's own fantasy of the ball with Harry also involves 'a voluptuous night, a band playing, and her lovely ...
The title is inspired by a series of paintings by William Hogarth, called Marriage A-la-Mode. [2] The story was sometimes seen as a minor work in Mansfield oeuvre, because it was published in The Sphere, a more popular (and less literary) newspaper, but critics including Saralyn R. Daly and Anna Kwiatkowska argue that the story is more complex than is often thought, and that Mansfield herself ...
"How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped" is a 1912 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Rhythm in September 1912 under the pen name of Lili Heron. [ 1 ] It was republished in Something Childish and Other Stories (1924).
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.
Her 2014 book, "Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf", was a book of literary criticism. [4] Her book focussed on Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Maddox Ford, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. [5]